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Relief For Cane Famers Not Enough PUP Says
posted (June 26, 2020)
In today's House meeting, Prime Minister Dean Barrow also tabled another loan to provide relief to the cane farmers in the north. Viewers are aware that the sugar industry, like the country's other agricultural sub-sectors and industries, has been devastated by 2 consecutive years of drought. So, the current economic pressures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is but another problem layered on top of their ongoing production worries.

The Barrow Government wants to offer them aid, and that's why the PM tabled the CDB Enhancing Sugarcane Famers Resilience to Natural Hazard Events Loan Motion of 2020.

According to the Government, the purpose of this loan is to assist in its implementation of a drought recovery scheme that will allow cane farmers in Northern Belize the ability to restore production following the droughts.

Shortly after the Prime Minister tabled the motion, PUP's Jose Mai criticized the funding as far too small to meet the need of the farmers. Here's an excerpt of the debate on that motion:

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