And from seaweed farming to cane farming, the media asked the PM about the changes coming to BSR/ASI. Yesterday we told you about their move to mechanized harvesting and their plan to plant new varieties. And Briceno - as Minister of the Sugar Industry- is on board.
John Briceno, Prime Minister
"I think it's a wonderful and a great program. They don't manage, what they do is they go in and they plant your fields properly. As we know the sugar industry is going through a complete transformation that we have to move from cutting cane by hand manually to mechanized and to do that now we have to have longer rows and flat we can't be having the mount, it has to be flat with a slope so the water can run out and so that's what we're doing, also to be able to change the variety that could be more resistant to the fusarium and the other pests that are affecting us. We've been doing a lot of work with the sugar cane industry in the north, they represent about 50% of GDP or more and they touched the lives of about 40,000+ Belizeans in the north so we have to continue to work with them."
