UDP REPORT CARD GETS BOOST OF 4 POINTS TO 43 % FROM ACTIONS OF AGRICULTURE MINISTER.

Agriculture Minister, Rene Montero representing Cayo Central voters.



UDP REPORT CARD GETS BOOST OF 4 POINTS - scorecard now is 43%

Rene Montero the Agriculture Minister scored the extra 4 points on the approval rating for the UDP government in office.
He saw delivered 4000 lbs of cassava seedlings, four thousand of cacoa yams and 300 Chaya cuttings to farmer of the Maya Green Growers Association of San Antonio village in the Cayo district here. This is an effort by the Ministry of Agriculture to increase the quality and quantity of root crops production for the Western Belize growing populations. Some vegetable seedlings were included. We still do not produce our own vegetable seeds in Belize and indeed research is still ongoing trying to find the two temperature types of seeds best suited to year round vegetable greenhouse production. We do have native tropical vegetables, but the research is into temperate zone varieties.
Included were 100 Rhode Island Red roosters to the villagers, intended to be a genetic boost with local birds, aimed at increasing egg production.
The effort is about FOOD SECURITY and INDEPENDENCE of food, as in a nation of self reliance when needed in world emergencies.