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Seeds of Change in Belize Rural North
posted (December 4, 2008)

The Belize River Valley may not be Belize’s bread basket but – in a manner of speaking - it is the vegetable basket. The fertile lands in the valley produce a bevy of vegetables – and for many farmers all that was lost during the floods. But many of the crops grow in 90 day cycles and now is the last opportunity to replant. That’s why Area Representative Edmund Castro was handing out high yield seeds yesterday in Sandhill. Ernelda Scott a former farmer of the year who lost everything in the floods told us more.

Ernelda Scott, Farmer
“I plant corn, cucumber, sweet pepper, habanera pepper, tomatoes, and little bit of broccoli and lettuce. Everything destroyed, even the hogs almost drowned. The whole place was under water. The toilet, the fowl coop, the hog pen – everything was under water.

That will assist me a lot because the corn seed alone is very expensive and then you have to buy the sweet pepper seed. Everything cost a lot of money right now that I don’t have.”

Seeds were also handed out in other areas.

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