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Administration launches Green Growth Initiative; NMC and partners expand local agriculture and reef work
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The governor said the administration launched a CNMI Green Growth Initiative with Northern Marianas College; NMC described hydroponics for school meals, home food forests and reef coordination with a US coral reef task force executive order.
Governor Arnold I. Palacios described a Green Growth Initiative led in partnership with Northern Marianas College to support regenerative agriculture, coral‑reef protection and progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Patty Coleman, chair of the Green Growth Initiative working group and representative of Northern Marianas College Cooperative Research, Extension and Education Services (CREES), told the joint session the initiative has established a Coral Coast Foundation hydroponic facility producing lettuce and leafy greens for the public school meal program. Coleman said the program has helped more than 40 families establish home food forests and that CREES is partnering with USDA, DLNR and the CACMAN Agricultural Farms and Producers Association to support local producers.
Palacios said the administration convened the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force on Saipan and signed an executive order recognizing coral reef as "critical natural infrastructure," which he said will help integrate reef protection into disaster preparedness and mitigation planning.
The administration said it will launch a public dashboard to track progress on selected SDG indicators and continue regenerative‑agriculture workshops on Saipan, Rota and Tinian.
