Chief executive officer of the Barbados Agricultural Society, James Paul, is calling on officials, and by extension the Government, to look at instituting a food recovery plan in the event of a disaster.
“A [hurricane] like what was experienced in Dominica, we would not recover from that in a hurry. Clearly, we were lucky because with those types of winds it will destroy significant amounts of our pens, and we will take a while to recover.
“I think what is important, and maybe that is something we need to speak to, is a need for a disaster recovery strategy. When we talk about disaster recovery, very often we do it in terms of a particular sector. In other words, we look at housing and things like that, but we do not think of it in terms of the whole economy.
“How do we get the whole economy running? Where do we get the resources to actually build back those pens that would be destroyed? And not only that, but how do we finance that first purchase of birds to get the economy back up to where it should be? (RA)
Please read the full story in today’s Saturday Sun, or in the eNATION edition.
