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Caribbean Food 2020 – Business Innovation Revolution aimed at transforming the Caribbean agricultural, agro-processing, food and beverage sectors: towards driving economic growth, tourism and employment.
By: Dr. Basil Springer
A look at the interesting projects and activities occurring across the Barbadian agricultural landscape (photos included).
By: Dr. Francis Chandler
An introduction to “Branded Sugars” as a viable means of diversifying the present sugarcane industry in Barbados.
By: Dr. Francis Chandler
Vinasse is a product of distillation of the beer (fermented Molasses-cane juice) for alcohol production. It is an aqueous effluent with suspended solids and is largely composed of water, organic matter and minerals elements. Vinasse can be a valuable organic fertilizer (mostly replacing potassium), as well as an important source of water replacement on the soil. Is it suitable as a fertilizer and soil amendment in Barbados?
By: Cesar A. Guerrero, Eng
Mount Gay Dist. – Consultant
Vinasse as a Soil Amendment
Grain Sorghum – An alternative crop for Barbados?
With the decline of sugarcane as the main monocrop of Barbados, is grain sorghum a suitable alternative?
By: Gerald Proverbs
Superelongation disease in Cassava: a Constraint to the Cassava industry in Barbados
By: Dr. Angela Alleyne, Lecturer in Biochemistry, UWI, Cave Hill
Why Cassava? presented by Dr. Deepford of FAO, Barbados. This presentation highlights the recent work and results, on-going work and challenges experienced with cassava.
A determination of the effect of single- and double-row planting on the yield of four sweet potato cultivars and to quantify economic feasibility of double-row planting of sweet potato as a production method within the BAMC setting.
By: Jacklyn Broomes and Anderson Eversley, BAMC