POLICY PAPER ON AGRICULTURE
PEOPLE’S UNITED PARTY
The overall goal of this policy is to increase, diversify and sustain agricultural production, food security, income and employment generation in Belize. This goal will require increasing farm-level capacity, improving technology and innovation, raising labor productivity, and being regionally competitive.
FARM TO TABLE
#planBelize
- FOOD SECURITY - Import replacement and substitution, export expansion and strengthening the linkages of tourism with our local productive sectors
- TAX CUT - Review the entire tax system and enact reforms to have a simplified, fair, efficient and development-driven system
- TRADE - Review and improve our trade policy agreements in our region
- EXPORTS - Work with the associations of the 4 traditional exports, i.e. sugar, citrus, banana and shrimp
- FINANCING - Affordable financing for farmers
- DIVERSIFICATION - Diversification and innovative climate-smart systems
- RESEARCH - Research and Development partnerships with renowned universities
- GROW MORE - Grow and produce more of what we eat and promote more consumption of what we grow.
- TEACH - Teaching of agriculture and agri-business in schools.
- STORAGE - Improving storage and logistic facilities
- NEW MARKETS - Improve our trade and market intelligence for international access and find niche markets for the export of the non- traditional commodities