Deputy Prime Minster of Belize and Minister of Natural Resources and Agriculture, Gaspar Vega embarked on a working visit to Peten, Guatemala as a guest of Guatemala’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food.
The Minister’s visit has now concluded and we have received reports that while he was in Peten, he attended and addressed the First National Livestock Fair held in Peten where he made contacts with several private sector livestock, equipment and service providers. Guatemala’s Agriculture Minister, Elmer Lopez, the Governor of Peten and the Congressman of Peten were among many other distinguished Guatemalan officials at the fair meanwhile bilateral meetings focused on cross border collaboration in particular with efforts to eradicate the Mediterranean Fruit -Fly.
The Guatemalan Minister agreed to move their quarantine control post to better protect both countries and it was also agreed a joint cross border project in the Jalacte/Santa Cruz Fronteras area would be proposed to ECADERT for funding. Vega’s trip continued with his visit to Pilonas de Antigua, a commercial nursery which produces fruit and forestry seedlings using advanced technology. Minister Vega was accompanied by the CEO in the Ministry of Agriculture, the Chief Agriculture Officer, the Managing Director of BAHA and the General Manager of Central Farm and a Senior Cooperative Officer.
