Consumers can expect prices of fruit and vegetables to drop with the opening of the new outdoor market, says president of the Barbados Association of Retailers, Vendors and Entrepreneurs (BARVEN), Alister Alexander.
During the official opening of the new chattel house-styled market on the Mighty Grynner Highway on May 8, Alexander acknowledged that the environment led to the surge in prices. He also said those increases could be attributed to the closure of the temporary market at Cheapside in The City.
“The price of vegetables is up and that is for more than one reason, one of which is that we have a drought situation in the country and even more so with the absence of a market like the BARVEN market, that caused an absence of the necessary price regulating tool, and that is a farmers’ market. (TG)
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