Crop Set to Commence Two Days After Christmas

Belize Sugar Industries is gearing up to ship the largest quantity of raw sugar in the country’s history, reflecting a successful cane season. However, the latter half of the season faced setbacks due to changing weather conditions and the fusarium disease, which devastated many Northern crops. We spoke with B.S.I. Communications Director, William Neal, about when the next crop season will start and how optimistic the company is for the future.

 

William Neal, Communications Director, B.S.I/A.S.R.

“We’ve had discussions with stakeholders and it was decided that the start of crop work and that would be the twenty-seventh of December B. S. I. Had actually proposed that we start on the sixteenth of December. We know that we have a lot of challenges with rain and climate change in general, but we thought because of the sarium disease as well that we should start as early as possible, however, and it was agreed that we would start on the twenty-seventh of December, and I think that Should be that’s it. That’s it by now, and we should proceed with that. We don’t foresee any challenges in that regard. But of course, the farmers and the farmer associations  asked for that because there were concerns about the rains, the condition of fields, but also the condition of roads. Anybody who drives on the roads in Belize know that we are having significant challenges with roads that are in horrible conditions.”