So, while the Minister believes that Edmond Castro should be given an equal opportunity to deliver his cane, he does agree that there are other "phantom farmers" who need to weeded out of the list of persons allowed to deliver cane to the BSI factory.
In his main address at the today's Ceremony, Hulse told the gathering that there should be a legally mandated census of cane farmers to ensure that those who say they are farmers, actually own cane fields.:
Hon. Godwin Hulse
"I am looking forward to the census. We have a good agreement in our last meeting that the census will move forward and it will move forward with the participation of everybody. We need to know what cane we have. We need to know who is growing cane. We need to know where its being grown and we need to know who the serious farmers are. There is no ifs, buts and maybe's about that. There is no place. I am not on a bash at all to say there is no place for shopkeepers who posed as cane farmers and who buy quotas and that sort of thing. We need to be serious. We need to know who grown cane, where they grow it, how it is, so we can inspect fields, we can improve yields and that sort of thing. That is the business."
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