Against a backdrop of heavy reliance on imported food that costs Barbados $80 million annually, the Barbados Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (BADMC) has launched a transformative, data-powered Agricultural Statistics Platform designed to modernize domestic farming coordination, ramp up local output, and shrink the nation’s food import dependency. The initiative is a core component of the country’s broader 25-by-25 strategy, which aims to cut the national food import bill by 25 percent by the end of 2025.