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The Barbados Egg and Poultry Producers Association (BEPPA) does not believe consumers benefited from its members selling poultry at a ten per cent discount over the past five months.In fact, president Stephen Layne told Barbados TODAY that it appeared that supermarkets and other retailers benefited more from the price reduction than those for whom it was intended.He said this was one of the two main reasons BEPPA believed the Social Compact signed with the Government last July – under which the private sector agreed to limit their markup on certain goods and produce from August 19, 2022, to ...

Small-scale poultry farmers in Barbados are taking a stand against any notion of extending a social compact that the country's government has designed to give consumers an ease from rising food prices.

Small poultry farmers are taking a stand against any notion of extending the social compact Government designed to give consumers an ease from rising food prices. On Saturday, during a meeting at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre, the farmers voted that the Barbados Egg and Poultry Producers’ Association (BEPPA) should not enter into such an agreement with Government again. Out of the