Antigua and Barbuda wants to reduce food import bill by intense livestock farming on 250 acres of land

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CABINET NOTES:

Immediately thereafter, the Cabinet began an intense discussion about food security and agricultural production.

The State was spending enormous amounts on the importation of chicken (meats) and pork.

These two food items can be produced locally in sufficient quantities, the Special Agricultural Adviser, Dr. Patrick Lay, who was invited to Cabinet, would later explain.

In 5 years, intense livestock farming on 250 acres of agricultural land could reduce the food import bill by 40%; the current expenditure on these two items exceed $220 million annually.

Infrastructural improvements required in order to meet the target would reach an expenditure level of US$2.5 million.

The Special Agricultural Adviser noted his own success in raising and multiplying his stock of pigs. Until he reached 1,000 pigs, it was advisable not to commence slaughtering.

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6 COMMENTS

  1. Wait. We only import poultry and meats? This government is desecrating prime agricultural lands for housing, displacing poultry farmers at Burkes for similar reasons and have the gall to issue this crap?
    This band of self-enrichment hoodlums have no interest in agriculture unless there is some personal kickback for them. So please. The dunce, contradictory utterances of these clowns is pathetic.

  2. Did these so-called intense discussions include the fact that Potential farmers are not going into the farming business; to be subjected to unfair completion by the Prime minister Gaston Browne?

    Are we supposed to be impressed that it was describes as an Intense discussion? How about the name of the Minister who prayed before the Creative Enrichment Session, call Cabinet Meeting?

    Every week Max Hurst piss on the public and tell them it’s raining, and the media runs for cover.

  5. They plan to grow anything other than pig and chicken? What about vegetables, and what is the latest on the monkey invasion? They will spell the end of farming.

  6. Director of IT with a PhD in marine Biology now Special Agricultural Advisor. Boy this ABLP always recycle old farts giving them all kinds of fancy names and as Kublai said, try to convince us that water is not really wet.

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