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Cabinet approves fertilizer subsidy for members of Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association; Opposition objects

Posted: Thursday, May 18, 2023. 4:23 pm CST.

By Aaron Humes: Cabinet has announced that after a full discussion on the sugar industry and the revelation that for two years the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association (BSCFA) had not benefited from premiums derived from fair trade, it approved BZ$1 million in subsidies for the association to be used for fertilizer to improve crop yield.

But the Opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) complains that this is not fair to other cane grower associations and other agro-industries which also use fertilizer.

Deputy leader of the UDP Hugo Patt told Channel 7 News that this move seems to smack of favoritism: “I mean it is not only that one association in particular or the members of one association in particular are being hit hard with the high cost of production inputs, everybody is getting hit and going a bit further, what about the other industries within the agro-productive sector? I mean you cannot just be not only arbitrary, but I feel that this is very discriminatory and so we call on the government to issue equivalent assistance to not only the other 3 associations, but to the other industries within the agro-productive sector.”

 

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