Consumers are being warned to exercise caution when purchasing sweet peppers, as a large quantity of the commodity was stolen from the farm of the College of Agriculture, Science and Education in Portland on Sunday.
The sweet peppers were chemically treated with fungicide, insecticides and miticide on Friday.
Such treatment renders the vegetables unfit for consumption for five days after treatment.
The Management of the institution is urging persons on the eastern section of the island to be very discriminatory in their purchase of all varieties of Sweet Peppers.
“I am not ruling out the possibility of these peppers reaching as far as Coronation Market in Kingston,” said Richard Campbell, Acting Director of Property, Farms and Transport at the college.
This is the second attack, in two weeks, on the greenhouse in which these sweet peppers are grown.
Sweet peppers is said to be fetching a market price of at least $250 per pound.
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