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Introduction

The Barbados Egg and Poultry Producers Association (BEPPA) is a commodity group of the Barbados Agricultural Society (BAS). The Barbados Poultry Association, the predecessor of the BEPPA was started in a very informal manner in 1952, and ran until 1975.  At that time the acting members of the association were Eric Atkinson, Richard Williams, John Defritas, and DeVere Cole among others.  The Barbados Egg and Poultry Producers Association was formally established on July 1st 1975.  

Objectives

1. To promote and protect the breeding, hatching, raising, processing, marketing of Baby Chicks, Eggs and Poultry on a commercial basis in Barbados and the other Islands in the Caribbean and Caricom Area.
2. To encourage and assist in the promotion of any Progressive Programme which have for its object the increased consumption of Eggs and Poultry by the people of Barbados and the other Islands in the Caribbean and Caricom Area.
3. To afford such advice and information to members’ as may be of assistance to them in matters connected with the breeding, hatching, raising, processing and marketing of Baby Chicks, Eggs and Poultry.

An additional object of the group has been and still is moving Barbados to a state of self-sufficiency in the production of both poultry meats and table eggs.  This group has also been known to lobby for restrictions on the imports of poultry parts and eggs, which can be produce locally.