 Over the last three weeks, there were no plant which is responsible for production of boxes for planting and banana farmers. They've been experiencing a disruption because a particular machine called the Corrigator, which has been operating for more than 50 years, went bad and they had to order a new machine out of China. That has caused serious problems for our farmers in terms of availability of boxes. And I know NFTO was the only exporting agency that had quite a bit of boxes available. I did engage NFTO in terms of seeing how they can share some of those boxes and they honestly did help in giving some other exporters assistance with boxes, but obviously they too would require boxes and so what did they keep the boxes? I initially engaged whenever for an update as to what was going on. I was told that there is a new machine that has been installed. I visited the plant last week Wednesday to get a first-hand view as to what was happening. I saw the persons and they were all Chinese residents installing the machine. They gave an indication of a time frame for completion of the machine which was Tuesday of this week or yesterday, but what we never experienced is that they have not been able to receive the material for production of the boxes from the Dominican Republic. To the ministry considering the impact that is going to have on the sector, especially our farmers who are now enjoying the production after tropical storm breath, they are now in a situation where they cannot sell their fruits and obviously that's going to impact the farmers in a very negative way. The ministry of agriculture understanding the sensitivity of the problem. We purchased 17,000 boxes from Domrep. The boxes were supposed to arrive in St. Lucia tomorrow. The boxes left Dominican Republic on Saturday last week on route to Jamaica, but unfortunately the bananas, the banana boxes remained in Jamaica on Monday and the ship actually is getting into St. Lucia tomorrow. We were told or we have been told by the shipping company that the boxes will leave the Domrep on Saturday and most likely we will get into St. Lucia next Thursday. But having taken into consideration what happened with the boxes in Jamaica, we've taken another initiative to get 12,000 boxes directly from the US and as we speak today the container has left and we are hoping that by Wednesday morning we will have boxes available for the farmers. We have already done all the necessary in terms of advancing the documentation with the broker and so on. So as soon as the boat gets there next week, we are hoping that we can have some boxes available. This situation is very, very painful for me as a minister for agriculture because I understand what the farmers are going through. They suffered for like four or five months after a tropical storm broke in June. We gave them support in terms of fertilizer under the SIT program and now they are in a situation where they have to be cutting the fruits because the fruits are ripe on the tree. It is not something that should ever happen again and I'm hoping that we can continue to engage Winera and again Winera is responsible for boxes but I'm getting the impression that they were not aware of the surplus that was being experienced from the end of November until now. We are in constant engagement with Winera but I just want to call on our exporters and that is NFTU, regional exporters, Rajima and the others to play a more integral role in terms of the requests for the boxes. The owners now falls on the ministry but I want to say that these people are private companies and they too have to take responsibility in ensuring that they make the request on time and that the request is available to them and we should never go through a situation like this for our farmers because our farmers are the ones who are suffering the most. So it's a very serious disruption in the sector and I do, by next week, if all goes well, our farmers we can resume the harvesting of the fruits and continue to generate an income from the work.