WHAT MARKETS FOR BELIZE RICE OVERPRODUCTION HAS BELTRAIDE FOUND?

OVERPRODUCTION OF AGRICULTURE PRODUCTS IN THE BELIZE PARADISE. What export markets for rice has BELTRAIDE FOUND? GIVE US A LIST SO WE CAN SEE IF YOU ARE WORKING YOUR JOBS IN THAT DEPARTMENT

-It is beginning to look, like there is NO CORDINATION between the Ministry of Agriculture, BELTRAIDE and the Foreign Ministery in solving Belize´s EXPORT PROBLEMS.

Cayo Buay see how our...
Sergio Garcia 10:13pm Feb 14
Cayo Buay see how our people think "Why is GOB blaming the farmers??? They should be proud of the production! The Min of Agriculture should have found markets in CARICOM!! Poor excuse!!

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE RESPONDS TO ALLEGATIONS
February 14, 2012
A press release from the Ministry of Agriculture issued this afternoon in direct response to the story said that the Toledo Agriculture Department has consistently supported rice farm...ers of that district in land preparation and harvesting through it machinery division. The official release says that for the crop year 2011, the department assisted in land preparation of six hundred acres and followed by assistance in harvesting the same amount of acreage. The Ministry of Agriculture release goes on to say that the Agriculture department provided machinery service to rice farmed based upon request; but that the Rice, Corn and Beans Association, headed by Dennis Usher did not make any such request for machinery service from the Agriculture Department for the last crop season. As for allegations that government failed the rice farmers, the Ministry of Agriculture puts the blame for any losses suffered by the producers squarely on their doorsteps, saying that it was the rice farmers who over produced and exceeded the national demand. Statistics provided in the official government response notes that the national demand for rice is approximately sixteen million pounds; but the rice farmers actually produced twenty seven million pounds of rice during the 2009-20010 crop year. That is a surplus of eleven million pounds of rice. A further break down provided by the Ministry of Agriculture asserts that the Blue Creek Rice Farmers produced seventy eight percent of the total production for 2009 and 66% of the total production for the year 2010.