Eastmond questions role of new corporation
Date: Sat 14-Aug-1993
Paper Page: 4
Publication: Sun on Saturday
THE NEW Barbados Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (BADMC)
would be a waste of time if it can't boost productivity in agriculture.
That's the view of Shadow Minister of Agriculture Rawle Eastmond who told the
House of Assembly yesterday that the time had past for Barbados to have a
state-run marketing entity whose primary focus was distribution.
Eastmond said Government did not say whether the entity would cut costs and
increase efficiency and output in the agriculture sector.
BLP representative for St. Michael South-East, Delisle Bradshaw, said the new
entity would have the power to sell corporate property including tenantry land,
but this would likely create confusion.
He argued that Government should sell tenantry and other non-productive land and
vest other productive lands in the new company, or else the BADMC would have a
huge portfolio of land "but nothing but deadwood".