History has been made: a 16,000-pound shipment of assorted chicken meat products has been exported from Belize to Grenada, the first shipment to one of its CARICOM partners. The shipment was made on Wednesday, December 23 and announced by our ministries of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade, and Immigration in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security, and Enterprise.
Western Dairies Belize, under the Right of Establishment of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), incorporated Western Dairies Grenada Ltd. in 2018 to serve as a hub for exports into the CARICOM market. The Directorate General for Foreign Trade (DGFT) supported the company throughout the establishment process. This newly formed operation has been the means for several shipments of Western Dairies ice cream into the Grenada market and has now began diversifying with the export of chicken cuts.
Belize’s Poultry Industry has been promising for export opportunities since the Caribbean Animal Health and Food Safety Agency’s (CAHFSA) 2017 risk assessment cleared Belize’s two processing facilities as ready-for-export within the CSME. This opportunity has now been secured for our poultry products.
