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Get the Apps Farmers dig out from tonnes of volcanic ash, face uncertain future
Article by April 17, 2021
KINGSTOWN – Farmers in St Vincent’s breadbasket region are counting thousands of dollars in losses after the decimation of their crops from the erupting La Soufriere volcano’s ashfall. The fallout could trigger food shortages and price hikes in Barbados, some market watchers said Friday.
In the villages of the island’s southern farming heartland, Mesopotamia Valley, life is once again springing forth from the earth. But for hundreds of root crops, bananas and other vegetables, it’s much too late.
Some growers hope and pray that with a reliable water supply slowly returning, they can revive their crops in time for export to Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago and elsewhere in CARICOM.