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Bel-Car Export & Import Company Limited
we send out is of good quality.”
Over the last two years, the company has
also increased its storage capacity for corn.
“We are now capable of storing 25,000
metric tons of corn on the premises,”Friesen
states. Unfortunately, that added storage
capacity has gone unutilized since then be-
cause the last two corn crops were both “a
disaster,”he says, ruefully. “A little bit more
than a year ago, it was drought; last year,
the crop looked really promising and we
were expecting a record-breaking crop to
be harvested in October, and then Hurricane
Earl took that.”
The vicissitudes of weather notwith-
standing, Friesen stresses that working
through a cooperative such as Bel-Car
is still and always the best option for its
foreign buyers. “We’re not a commodities
broker,” he asserts, “we are grower-owned.
Any customer who deals with us deals
directly with the farmers. They don’t have
all these middlemen to feed. If you come
to Bel-Car, you come to the farmers –
farm-direct and fresh.”
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