RED BOUNTY
AT THE Falmouth market in Trelawny, a pound of tomatoes sells for $20. The same goes at the Morant Bay market in St. Thomas.
Have your way with tomatoes
THE TOMATO is actually a fruit which, by twist of faith and government intervention in the United States some 110 years ago was declared a vegetable by the Supreme Court. This was to ensure that the highly imported fruit would attract taxes ...
Sun-dried tomatoes
FOR A gourmet touch and a burst of flavour to your tomato dishes try sun-dried tomatoes. Sun-drying tomatoes began before modern canning methods were available. Italians dried tomatoes on their tile roofs for use in the winter when fresh tomatoes were...
From farmer's son to JAS president
SENATOR NORMAN Grant, president of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), has been in the agricultural business since birth. His parents, Leteria Hall and Emmanuel Grant, raised him on their small farm in Mavis Bank, St. Andrew. Grant, the eldest of...
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