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April 15, 2021

Agriculture Minister meets with Mexican cattle buyers

Mai says that the plan is for BAHA to carry out an inspection of a corral in Shipyard with the intention to register it to be [...]
April 12, 2021

Did searing temperatures over the weekend cause thousands of chickens to die? Authorities investigate mass chicken kill in Spanish Lookout

Francisco Gutierrez, Acting Managing Director of BAHA told our newsroom that officers are currently out conducting investigations but have not completed their preliminary report as yet. [...]
April 8, 2021

“You have to produce what you eat and eat what you produce,” Minister of Agriculture Abelardo Mai says as Ministry starts distribution of 18,000 vegetable seedlings

On Wednesday, Jose Abelardo Mai, Minister of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise, along with Fermin Blanco, OIRSA country representative, visited the Ministry’s nursery in Central Farm [...]
April 7, 2021

Flood-affected farmers to receive vegetable seedlings

The donation was received from the OIRSA Regional Emergency Funds to assist vegetable farmers who were affected by the flooding caused by hurricane Eta and Iota.
April 3, 2021
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Prices for chicken going up after Easter due to increases in soybean and corn prices

Breaking Belize News spoke with Armando Cowo, Manager of the Belize Poultry Association (BPA), and confirmed that according to the Association, increased prices for corn and [...]
April 1, 2021
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Honoring Southside’s Shanea Young – Belize’s first and only woman agro-meteorologist

Young grew up on the Southside of Belize City, attended St. Catherine’s Academy and later joined the NMS in 2009, as a Meteorological Officer IV after [...]
March 31, 2021

Minister of Agriculture Jose Abelardo Mai visits hydroponics operation and other agricultural producers

This morning, Minister Mai’s first stop was a visit with Jim Jones, an individual producer specializing in lettuce grown hydroponically. Apart from different types of lettuce, [...]
March 30, 2021

Ministry of Agriculture launches new biological pest control program to save local crops

The Ministry officially launched the program yesterday, where it revealed that the laboratory at the Agriculture and Trade Show Grounds established to produce a natural enemy [...]