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Belize National Agriculture and Trade Fair 2005

 

Taiwane Technical Mission in Belize.

Over 50 thousand visitors traveled to Belmopan over Belize’s Labour Day weekend to attend the annual National Agriculture and Trade Show. The event is the biggest single event in Belize’s capital featuring agriculture and commercial exhibits, rodeo events, music and food, and this year, a canoe race.

Keep Our Dollar Home was the motto for this year and the crop exhibits showed an increasing diversity of fruits, vegetables and grains - some introduced by the Taiwan Technical Mission in Belize (above). As usual, the two-day fair was held during the day with temperatures reaching 103 degrees Fahrenheit - not the best environment for thousands of visitors crowding together on the fair grounds.

Many visitors, including your correspondent, wonder why the fair is not held in January when it is cooler, or preferably in the evening and night like most other fairs.

Cobanera trader from Guatemala in Belize.

ABOVE: Cobanera trader from neighbouring Guatemala shows off her wares.

Mennonite Teens at the Belize Agriculture Show.

ABOVE: Mennonite teens step out into the fair.

Dried fruits and nuts exhibit at Belize Agriculture Show.

ABOVE: Visitors line up to sample dried fruits and nuts which are being developed by BELTRAIDE and the Agriculture Department with assistance from Taiwan as a new product for internal consumption and export.

Rodeo event at the Belize Agriculture Show.

ABOVE: And well, the Belize Agriculture Show would not be complete without the rodeo would it?

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