This Farmer Field School (FFS) program was funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)/Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) as a component of the “Creating a Sustainable Sugarcane Industry in Northern Belize'' project, implemented by SIRDI.
Read Morewelve training modules were delivered to the group of enthusiastic youths who were willing and eager enough to venture into the Farmer Field School (FFS) best agronomic practices program.
Read MoreFroghopper is considered a major pest in sugarcane, since every crop cycle it affects sugar-cane farmers by increasing control costs while decreasing productivity, especially with the elimination of the preferential market for Belize’s sugar.
Read MoreToday, hundreds of cane-farmers and sugar industry stakeholders joined dignitaries and government officials to officially open SIRDI’s new headquarters.
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