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October 2019
 

07 October 2019

JACRA's Deputy Chairman John Minott presents coffee seedling to farmer Clifford Jonas

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 07 Oct 2019    communications   
Deputy Chairman of the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA), John Minott (left), presents farmer Clifford Jonas of Red Light, Irish Town with a coffee seedling at a handover ceremony of the seedlings to farmers, at Ueshima Coffee Company Limited in Rose Hill, Woodford, St. Andrew on October 4.


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Handover ceremony of coffee seedlings to farmers

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 07 Oct 2019    communications   
Chief Planning Analyst in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Karl Hyatt (second left) looks on as Japanese Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Hiromasa Yamazaki (right), makes a point at a handover ceremony of coffee seedlings to farmers, at Ueshima Coffee Company Limited in Rose Hill, Woodford, St. Andrew on October 4. Others from left listening in are Acting Director General of the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA), Gusland McCook and Councillor of the Gordon Town Division in East Rural St. Andrew, Neville Whittaker.


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Ribbon cutting ceremony to symbolically present coffee seedlings to farmers

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 07 Oct 2019    communications   
Chief Planning Analyst in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Karl Hyatt (left) participates in the ribbon cutting ceremony to symbolically present coffee seedlings to farmers, at Ueshima Coffee Company Limited in Rose Hill, Woodford, St. Andrew on October 4. Others from second left are Acting Director General of the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA), Gusland McCook; Japanese Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Hiromasa Yamazaki, and Councillor of the Gordon Town Division in East Rural St. Andrew, Neville Whittaker.


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Acting Director General of the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA), Gusland McCook (centre), receives a coffee seedling from Japanese Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Hiromasa Yamazaki (right), at a handover ceremony of the seedlings to farmers, at Ueshima Coffee Company Limited in Rose Hill, Woodford, St. Andrew on October 4. At right, is Councillor of the Gordon Town Division in East Rural St. Andrew, Neville Whittaker.

Two hundred farmers set to receive 50,000 coffee seedlings

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 07 Oct 2019    communications   
A total of 200 coffee farmers from communities in the Blue Mountain areas of St. Andrew are set to benefit from the distribution of 50,000 coffee seedlings with the establishment of the Blue Mountain coffee nursery. This is being made possible under the Japanese Government’s Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Project and will impact farmers from Woodford, Red Light, Middleton, Sugar Loaf, Settlement, Penfield and Irish Town. The project, which is being implemented by the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA), is funded by the Embassy of Japan in Jamaica to...


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