LONDON (JIS):PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), Senator Norman Grant has said that the association was moving to reposition itself on the international scene and to make its premier agricultural show at Denbigh an international event.
He said that the JAS would be engaging the services of STITA, an international farm tour company, to market Denbigh and to bring buyers, but also individuals and companies interested in marketing, to Jamaica. Mr. Grant is on a one-week visit to the United Kingdom, during which he visited the Royal Agricultural Show in Warwickshire.
"There are major reasons to intensify the two-year strategy to move Denbigh from just a national event to a Caribbean event this year, and to prepare to take it next year, 2005, to an international show," he said. "I have had discussion with STITA, which is a farm tour company in the UK, and which I am engaging with immediate effect, to market Denbigh to Europe."
HIGHLIGHT
The 52nd Denbigh Agricultural and Industrial Show from July 31 to August 2 will display the best foods produced in Jamaica by parishes and highlight the importance of agriculture to the export sector and the national economy.
