A new pork industry co-op may be on the horizon.
During a meeting yesterday in the JB Simpson Complex, Six Roads, St Philip, chaired by businessman Andrew Bynoe, farmer Jefferson Trotman floated the idea of a new co-op to which Bynoe said he was willing to help facilitate.
“Jefferson just wrote a challenge to me. I accepted. I told Jefferson, bring me ten farmers, we can sit down, we can get the right type of advice, we can get the personnel who know about these matters, who know what research needs to be done, who know how to construct the kind of plan that is necessary. Bring me the ten and we will get the expertise and we will move forward,” he said.
However, chief executive officer of the Barbados Agricultural Society, James Paul, asked whether this was far enough, and felt it could not be a case of one group prospering while the others were not.
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