COUNTRY FOODS COOPERATIVE SUCCESS STORY IN BELIZE

Country Foods cooperative is growing in production.  ALL is sold on the local market.  Nothing is exported yet.  Eggs represent 71% of this Spanish Lookout Cooperative.  18% of their business is in RK beans.  Rice represents the other 11%.  80% of their beans are RK beans.  They also produce and market cranberry, and smaller red beans,  with black eyed peas.  There is nobody in Belize producing LENTILS yet, my favorite bean and the one we always buy, but it is imported. The cooperative rice is packed in 20, 50 and 100 pound bags.  They distribute locally about 800,000 lbs of rice per year.  About 1 million pounds of beans are sold each year locally.