Jesse Ramdeo

There is a scarci­ty of sor­rel across the coun­try for Christ­mas.

Con­sumers have re­port­ed that ac­cess to the pop­u­lar red ar­row-shaped leaf plant used for the pop­u­lar Christ­mas drink has not been as wide­ly avail­able as in pre­vi­ous years.

Head of the Agri­cul­tur­al So­ci­ety of Trinidad and To­ba­go, Daryl Ram­per­sad, ex­plained that few ven­dors have the crop in stock.

He said this is as a re­sult of re­cent weath­er con­di­tions which dec­i­mat­ed fields of the flower.

"If I can count on my hand how many ven­dors I saw this morn­ing with sor­rel from San­gre Grande straight in­to the farm­ing com­mu­ni­ty of Bonne Aven­ture it was just one in­di­vid­ual and I've spo­ken to sev­er­al in­di­vid­u­als who ac­tu­al­ly grow sor­rel as well too and they told me they had some sor­rel com­ing in in the ear­li­er part of the sea­son and with the ad­di­tion­al rain­fall most of the crops were de­stroyed," he said.