The Amps Entrepreneurship Leadership Institute has trained another cohort of students in the U.S. Virgin Islands to consider ways in which they can increase agricultural production in the territory. The company’s goal is to generate interest in agriculture through youth entrepreneurship.

This month, 25 high school and college students on St. Thomas attended a retreat that began on February 3rd at the University of the Virgin Islands, School of Agriculture.

There, the students worked alongside farmers and business owners to create business ideas in agriculture. They met mentors like Luis Cruz-Arroyo, Caribbean Area director for the US. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, who encouraged science-based farming solutions, such as how to improve water quality.

Tiana Wilson-Matthew, a counselor at Ivanna Eudora Kean High School, said she wanted the students to embrace the thought of owning their own business…