Weir intervenes

Government is intervening as a major increase in the local price of animal feed is set to trigger a hike in the price of meat and poultry produced here. Minister of agriculture Indar Weir tells Starcom Network News he will be meeting tomorrow with management of Pinnacle Feeds, the lone local manufacturer of animal feed. […]

BAS: Price hikes inevitable

The Board of the Barbados Agricultural Society meets this afternoon to consider the options in the face of a twenty percent increase in the price of animal feed, but it appears clear Barbadians will soon have to pay more for local meat, eggs and poultry. The only question is how soon prices will go up […]