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So, after the Prime Minister presented that broad overview of the impacts of the drought, Agriculture Minister Godwin Hulse was up next. 

He provided extensive details of their assessment of each of the crops that were negatively impacted, and in which parts of the country. His ministry was able to do this based on its registration of the majority of the nation’s farmers.

It is called the Belize Agriculture Information Management System, and it was a timely tool to address this crisis. 

Currently, the Ministry system indicates that there are over 418,000 acres of land under cultivation, comprising 8,274 farms countrywide. Those farms lands are owned by just under 7,100 farmers, and so, after the Ministry canvassed the entire agro-producing population, they were able to get a very accurate picture of the impacts of the drought.

Here’s Hulse’s breakdown of the figures at the press conference this morning: