The local farming community is reporting tonight that it did not have the best of years.
That’s the word from Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados Agricultural Society James Paul.
He says the year was extremely difficult due to weather changes which caused a shortage in supplies.
Mr. Paul also listed some of the other situations that caused challenges but applauded the industry for showing resilience this year.
He says for 2024 he hopes things will be better.
Mr. Paul also hopes that a state of the art vet lab can be introduced for the agricultural sector.
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We had a situation where you had um challenges in terms of the weather um challenges in terms of the whole question of increases in inputs there were a whole set of challenges this year and it seems as if a lot of the the practices to that we have in the
Industry was coming home to roost um and we were just I think at an industry not prepared to deal with them so this year was a very challenging one and you know and I think that that we got through it um is testimony to the fact that we have
Some resilience but hopefully we would have learned from it at the same time I’m hoping to see in 2024 more money being spent in agriculture as part of the national budget um for instance I know the Prime Minister has promised us that we are
Going to see a new vet Lab at least a vet lab that is there to serve the sector we cannot have a progressive and vigorous agricultural sector if we do not have this things in the country there to support and a vet lab is integral to basically facilitating the
Export of agricultural Commodities even for instance in terms of what we currently do if vet lab is critical