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June 2019
 

06 June 2019

Gov’t not abandoning sugar, says Shaw

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 06 Jun 2019    communications   
Government is not abandoning sugar, says the Hon Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, but instead is right-sizing and rationalising the industry. Noting the downturn in the sugar industry, Minister Shaw said the focus is now on appropriating former sugar lands to other areas of agricultural production starting in the parishes of Clarendon, St. Catherine and Trelawny. He said the SCJ Holdings now has hundreds of applications for thousands of acres of former sugar lands across the country, slated to be leased to farmers. Minister Shaw was speaking at the...


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