Cabbage has gone scarce because fields in Valley of Peace were almost
destroyed by excessive rains. As a result, cabbage production has been
very low for the past five weeks. How low? Well, there's 12,000 pounds
of cabbage available locally starting next week, and the market demand
is for 80,000 pounds weekly.
So, government says that's why it will have to import to bridge the
shortfall. T
he Ministry of agriculture has authorised the import of 25,000 pounds
through the Belize Marketing and Development Corporation.
The Ministry says "it will continue to closely monitor the supply and
demand of cabbage under the prevailing unfavourable weather
conditions."
The last license to import cabbage was issued in September 2019 for
56,000 pounds.
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