Farming a new found love
MALVERN, St. Elizabeth: ROGER EDWARDS is a young farmer who cultivates crops in Nain, near the ALPART plant in St. Elizabeth. He has been tilling the soil for the past six years, planting crops like cucumber, cabbage, tomato, sweet pepper and thyme.
Sugar Company of Jamaica financial bind
THE SUGAR Company of Jamaica (SCJ) is pinning its hopes of unravelling the financial bind with the assistance of the Ministry of Finance and its creditor - the KBC Group out of Europe. "We are pinning our hopes on what we can do...
Training programme for goat and sheep farmers launched
A TRAINING programme has been established for farmers to improve their sheep and goat breeding and management practices. Minister of Agriculture and Lands, Roger Clarke, on Monday launched the Small Ruminant Industry Development Training Programme...
Agro-forestry shows great potential to raise revenue
DONOVAN Stanberry, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands says the agro-forestry industry has great potential to generate revenues for the country and is an ideal stimulator for sustainable rural development.
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