A group of five Belizeans, including farmers and a Ministry of Agriculture, Food security, and Enterprise(MAFSE) officer, are in Bogota, Colombia, learning about hydroponic and substrate-based farming methods.
Andrea Polanco
“So, this essentially means that you as a wholesaler your customers are not buying because they can’t retail it?”
“Yes that’s the situation, yes.
There are vehicles coming with one hundred and fifty sacks and in a week time they bring two trips and that is about three hundred sacks in the market – so that is about three hundred less
that we do sell and that is a problem for us.”
These farmers have one hundred and forty-thousand pounds of onions stored. These are produce that the farmers must sell off in three weeks time. That’s because their season should be wrapping up and it is time to import onions to supply the market. But right now, these farmers are worried that they will suffer massive losses this season