B.S.C.F.A. Exposed to Environmentally-friendly Aro-products

B.S.C.F.A. Committee of Management Vice Chair, Alfredo Ortega told us earlier that around seventeen hundred canefarmers in the north have suffered losses so far by the flood waters, which represents roughly twenty-five percent of all canefarmers from Orange Walk and Corozal. The B.S.F.C.A. official is in Guadalajara, Mexico for a workshop on agro-science. Ortega will be back on Wednesday, as the workshop has been shortened because of the approaching Hurricane Beryl. He explained to us that the session is mainly to share information about products that could be beneficial for the farmers across the board.

 

Alfredo Ortega, Vice Chairman, Committee of Management, B.S.C.F.A.

“It’s more products that could be beneficial for the cane farming community, not only cane farming, but also all the agriculture sector, because these products that they are presenting to us right now are products that are really friendly with the environment. They’re mostly enriched with organic production, so they are more environmentally friendly and we’re seeing that if we start to use those products, then we can have better yields with the same varieties we have. And also our vegetable farmers or our green farmers can really benefit to have a better use in their production of the different vegetables that we can plant.”