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Agriculture Minister Matthew Walter says that in addition to $2 million dollars set aside for feeder roads by Finance Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, a further $5 million is becoming available to service the country\u2019s farm access roads.<\/p>\nAgriculture Minister Matthew Walter says that in addition to $2 million dollars set aside for feeder roads by Finance Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, a further $5 million is becoming available to service the country\u2019s farm access roads.<\/p>\n
The $5 million, according to the minister, is grant funding being made available under the programme known as BAM \u2013 Banana Accompanying Measures.<\/p>\n
Minister Walter said the $7 million should help rehabilitate a significant amount of feeder roads that\u2019ll facilitate the exporting of bananas and other agricultural crops to generate much needed foreign exchange.<\/p>\n
The Banana Accompanying Measures (BAM) represent European assistance to help African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries adjust to new trade realities.<\/p>\n
The government here had been blasted for, according to its critics, not putting aside adequate funds for feeder road rehabilitation.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Skerrit responded at the time that the $2 million allocation that he had announced was an initial start, and that efforts would be made to find additional funding for farm access roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Agriculture Minister Matthew Walter says that in addition to $2 million dollars set aside for feeder roads by Finance Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, a further $5 million is becoming available to service the country\u2019s farm access roads. The $5 million, according…","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-development"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n