The Caribbean Agro-Economic Society was formally launched on April 8, 1974 at the Ninth West Indies Agricultural Economics Conference in Jamaica. The major activity of the Society has been the organization of the West Indies Agricultural Economics Conferences. This conference series started in February 1966 at the then Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.

The Conference has the following objectives:

(a) To provide a forum for the examination of all agricultural institutions, policies, systems and practices in the CARICOM Region;

(b) To focus attention on the economic problems of agricultural production and marketing with a view to improving economic efficiency;

(c) To facilitate exchange and flow of ideas between universities, regional and government institutions and the private sector with respect to matters related to the economics of agricultural production and related industries;

(d) To disseminate agricultural information throughout the Region;

(e) To establish a closer working relationship between the public and private sectors in agricultural production;

(f) To publish available material for the benefit of the entire Region, through the publication of papers from the conferences in the Society’s journal Farm and Business.