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Relief for Farmers Who Lost Due To COVID
posted (August 27, 2020)

Hulse and his team made sure to carefully explain that the farmers will get government aid, based on which adverse circumstances caused them to lose business. One of the criteria that a farmer might qualify under is the loss of revenue due to the COVID-induced shrinking of the markets they supply.

Hulse explained how the program aids these types of farmers:

Hon. Godwin Hulse - Ministry of Agriculture

"The way this will be divided is as follows. For market contraction - and that is exactly what it says. Because we reduced sales due to no tourists coming, in many cases reduced exports. So, the market contracted, no fault of the farmers, no fault of any of us. Poultry, dairy, vegetables, mainly cabbage, melons, onions, potatoes, sweet corn, sweet peppers, and tomatoes, cattle, pig, sheep, shrimp, pulse - pulse are seeds, in case you don't know what that word means, and grain production in various farms in the agricultural value chain was taken into consideration. An allocation of Belize 7,349,498 dollars was designated for these. Farmers across the country registered in the BAIMS program will qualify for support. That's for market contraction."

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