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Jamaica Gleaner Business
published: Monday | June 5, 2006
Drought sapping farmers' profits
WESTERN BUREAU: THE RURAL Agricultural Development Authority estimates that farmers lost close to $270 million last year as a result of drought in Trelawny, St. Elizabeth, Clarendon, Portland and St. Thomas.
Crops under siege from disease
DESPITE THE intervention of the Ministry of Land and Agriculture, the scourge of diseases and pests is crippling agricultural production, says senior plant protection specialist at the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA),...
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