As foreign aid goes it is not in the same league as the Southern Highway or even Coastal Zone Project in Toledo… but don’t tell that to the seventeen farmers who will benefit from a project to be undertaken by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN. The Tele Food Micro Project launched this […]
A delegation of Belizeans has returned from Washington where they sought U.S. support for a proposed European banana agreement. The four-member team, led by Minister of Agriculture Dan Silva, formed part of a CARICOM delegation led by Prime Minister Edison James of Dominica. While the U.S. still objects to the proposal by the European Union […]
For the first time a Belizean will head the nation’s largest industrial corporation. Effective October 1st, Joey Montalvo has been appointed as Managing Director of Belize Sugar Industries Limited. He replaces John McFarlane, who has retired. The fifty year old Montalvo, formerly the company’s general manager, has worked for B.S.I., based at Tower Hill, for […]
Over the weekend, the Tower Hill Factory processed the last of the season’s cane and officials of Belize Sugar Industries report that while the crop was the largest in history, both sugar production and revenues were well below last year’s figures. The provisional numbers as reported by B.S.I. general manager Joey Montalvo show that cane […]
The National Agriculture and Trade Show is still two weeks away but already the winners of the Farmer of the Year award in the senior, junior and female categories have been announced. A government press release names forty five year old Mario Narvaez of Corozal as the overall winner in the senior division, while twenty […]
First it was low world prices, then a labor dispute. Now there’s more bad news for Belize’s beleaguered citrus industry. The Agriculture Ministry has announced the detection of Mediterranean fruit flies at two locations in Southern Belize: Mile 2 1/2 on the Hummingbird Highway and Mango Creek near the Southern Highway. Government, with the cooperation […]
In economic news the Citrus Growers Association and Belize Food Products limited have signed a six year agreement on fruit prices. The pact, which takes effect immediately, is based on a price formula similar to that used in the sugar industry. That is the price will vary depending on the revenues received from citrus concentrate […]
