Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Floyd Green says that the oversupply of certain crops on the market is not due to the importation of vegetables.
"None of the vegetable line glut are due to importation, absolutely not. No tomato, no lettuce, no cabbage, nothing like that," Green said.
He was addressing the sitting of the Standing Finance Committee at Gordon House on Friday, March 6.
He noted that although onion imports were authorised in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, the current market glut was not caused by an excess of these imports.
"It's not that we have imported more onions than normal… but there have been challenges on the wharf in relation to clearance, in relation to time and sometimes timing makes a difference," Green explained.
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