Those ideas are nothing new, If you check you would find that such a plan was submitted to the BADMC as far back as 2002 (which they refused to returned), to enlist the farmers in their so-called “land for the landless” program as suppliers of these crops for processing into convenient foods for the local, north american and uk markets (i.e. where there is a high concentration of west indian communities), But the then arrogant blp pimps who were managing badmc at that time thought such a plan was good for a black boy to be pushing and so it was tossed aside.
Surely the longest head row has an end!!!!!
I am watching to see where this will go………..

Gold mine indeed. Using a simple calculation of 2,500 lbs yield per acre
on 150 acres planted, Farmer Bim is set to reap gold spigots indeed
150 x 2,500 x $2.50 = $937,500 x 2 turnarounds per season= BIG BUCKS,
Hope Dr.Estwick is listening now.

It seems strange that Sweet potato chips are nothing new to the USA and has been used by some fast food outlets for many years. Last year I was asked by a blogger from Oregon if we use sweet potatoes for chips instead of the Irish potatoes; She then told me that they were a favorite of hers and that she buys them from a fast food outlet in Oregon. They have been serving these chips for years.
http://www.burgerville.com/
We should have been trail blazers since sweet potato is one of our main crops. Well it is better late than never so we will see how long this will last. Our excellent yam flakes fell by the wayside and still there has never been a revival. Let us hope this will not follow suit.

Mr. Ministers how about supplying the cruise ships with fresh sweet potatoes chips,and breadfruit fritters, liver cutters and steak fish even golden apple juice and mauby as a true Bajan novelty….. “Baxters Road comes Aboard “…….no need for casino shortbread….we have here more than enough local delicacies I am sure, cruise ship visitors would prefer ….than losing money every night with the extended birthing..

Substitute with tings bajan…mother sally, limbo, fire eating, drum beating , folk chorale, local girls dancing, local entertainers……ONE NITE A WEEK ON EACH BOAT……picture the employment, and $$$$ exchanged.

WE LIKE UM……so how come we are this late? Sweet potatoes been here since the donkey cart days. This is definitely a winner.

Do anyone remember Carmeta Fraser and her intense locally grown food promotion? She created recipes from our fruits and food crops and documented them in a recipe book
She also had a food promotion program on CBC so this is nothing new. It just show that there has been a lack of vision for agriculture. It’s like sports..never taken serious

i find this totally embarrassing that black bajans should have to wait for some one to (bajan white) to tell them about utilizing sweet potatoes for chips. how simple can u blogger be? most of u are middle age judging from ur writing and u are all acting as if this is some new discovered miracle. why do u have to wait for the man in white to enlighten u? sickening and down right embarassing

But if the farmer /inventor from Six-Roads, who is a regular contributor on the call-in programmes, had come up with this project, it would have been given the same treatment as his Animal Feed ,and his other projects

@ David | October 19, 2012 at 6:34 PM |

You will hear from Leroy McClean on the great business opportunities of our black belly sheep when his party is in Opposition and wants to stoke the fire under the government.

Now that he is at the helm of the BIDC he drops such interest like a Bajan hot sweet potato.
The black belly sheep population has plummeted in the last 5 years at a much faster rate than sugar production with a concomitant significant increase in the importation of mutton passing as lamb from New Zealand from very old wool producing sheep slaughtered at least 1 year ago and kept frozen with chemicals like some cadavre in Two Sons mortuary.

Leroy is on a mission to push the assembling of PCs in this age of smart phones and tablets technology. Even a black belly sheep would not be so stupid as to follow this path of 80’s and 90’s “industrialization” by invitation model of economic development.

@pinkie

It is about execution and not if the idea has been around for a long time, EXECUTION!

@Hants

Yes, it is good to see a Bajan company actually pushing an initiative which makes sense.