{"id":11055,"date":"2011-08-15T08:14:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T12:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=11055"},"modified":"2011-09-01T09:09:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T13:09:36","slug":"family-island-farmers-get-fruit-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/08\/family-island-farmers-get-fruit-trees","title":{"rendered":"Family Island Farmers Get Fruit Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11088\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11088\" style=\"width: 486px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11088 \" title=\"Trees\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Trees.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Trees.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Trees-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Trees-250x115.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BAIC assistant general manager for agriculture, Arnold Dorsett (right), and Andros mail boat Lady Rosalind operator Keno Beneby, sort fruit trees for shipment to the islands. (BIS Photo\/Gladstone Thurston)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nassau, Bahamas &#8212; Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation&#8217;s distribution of bud wood fruit trees to farmers continued last weekend with material going to six islands.<\/p>\n<p>Several varieties of sugar apple, sour sop, mango, avocado and guava went to Abaco, Long Island, Andros, Grand Bahama, Eleuthera, and Exuma.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This project is an attempt to assist farmers by adding to their mix of fruit trees,&#8221; said BAIC assistant general manager for agriculture, Arnold Dorsett.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an attempt to bring back some of the native varieties that we have grown accustomed to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BAIC is identifying farmers who have demonstrated interest in fruit tree production to take care of the new varieties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These will be available for bud wood, for persons who want to bud trees of different varieties,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully we will be able to diversify our variety of fruit trees. In another few years this will be a very big project.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once farmers start multiplying these fruit trees, they can expand as much as they want.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bud wood is here and with the proper grafting techniques they can rapidly multiply improved varieties of fruit trees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This comes on the heels of another BAIC initiative \u2013 using the Sweet Cayenne to improve the variety of pineapples produced in The Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sweet cayenne is a variety which we are importing,&#8221; said Mr Dorsett. &#8220;We are trying to have more of these produced locally so that we can replace some of the imports. We are confident that these pineapples will grow well in The Bahamas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gladstone Thurston<br \/>\nBahamas Information Services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation&#8217;s distribution of bud wood fruit trees to farmers continued with material going to Abaco, Long Island, Andros, Grand Bahama, Eleuthera, and Exuma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[80,61,23,40,59],"class_list":["post-11055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-agriculture","tag-charity","tag-food","tag-government","tag-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}