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Not for the first time in recent years have Caribbean Community leaders expressed horror at the $5 billion annual tab the region spends on imported food, but for most of them the bill is so bizarre they have vowed to put the ‘knife’ on it going forward.

The pledge to grow more food in the 15-nation bloc, buy more from each other, cut out unhealthy imports, and improve air and sea transportation as well as reduce trade barriers, came at the end of a week-long special agricultural summit held in bloc headquarters at Guyana in the past week.

“We have been talking and talking, but the opportunities simply have not been there,” said Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley. “I think that the urgency of what we have been facing with inflation, particularly as it relates to food, means that everybody knows that we got to get on board, and get this right.

Stung by global price increases for flour and related products, Guyana for example, recently announced a collaboration with Mexico to test the possibility of growing wheat in the year-round steamy hot tropical weather as a means to significantly reduce its import bill and dependence on global availability.

Additionally, Guyana and Barbados are planning to establish a food terminal, most likely in Barbados, that would make it easier to manage exports and production.

 

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