The letter suggests that per Fairtrade standards there must be a binding purchase contract between a member and a producer. Failure to maintain one would result [...]
According to the CSCPA, it has not expelled any members in 2020 or 2021. Rather, following a re-registration exercise completed in October, 596 members remain on [...]
The relieved duo repeated that the amendment “would have had dire implications for the freedom of Cane Farmer Associations to manage their affairs and also concentrated [...]
On the latter, the BSCFA was full of praise for Prime Minister John Briceño’s declaration that the 2021-2022 crop will commence in December 2021. The government [...]
Incumbent Minister of Agriculture Jose Abelardo Mai, introducing the amendment at Friday’s meeting of the House of Representatives, said Belize’s gains – and position in the [...]
Cabinet has resolved that while it is unlikely that such an agreement can be reached before the crop starts, the crop must start nonetheless, and that [...]
Some of the blame was placed on leading industrial giant Belize Sugar Industries Limited/American Sugar Refining (BSI/ASR) for not properly treating its waste from factory operations.