Heavy flood losses for Bajan farmers

(Barbados Nation) Farmers have been left with flooded fields, damaged crops and profits washed down the drain after heavy rains over the past few weeks.

From St Lucy to St Philip, tonnes of onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, squash and watermelons lay destroyed in the fields as some farmers faced financial crisis and bleak futures.

Freddy Gale, of Gale’s Agro Products in Mangrove, St Philip, told the WEEKEND NATION that about a tenth of