By ALISON LOWE
Business Reporter

alowe@tribunemedia.net

Expecting a "tremendous reduction" to have been achieved in the Bahamas' food import bill in the past year due to increases in the farming of fruits and vegetables, the Minister of Agriculture yesterday said he hopes this nation will become an exporter of onions in 2011.

"Based on what we have seen from the packing houses, the produce exchange, along the roadsides and at Potter's Cay and other areas with small markets, it certainly looks to me that there is much more being produced," Larry Cartwright said of general agricultural output, during the first day of the Agri-Business Expo on Gladstone Road.

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