State Minister in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green (right) addresses the audience at a job fair hosted by the HEART/Trust NTA in collaboration with the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the National Irrigation Commission (NIC) and the Rural Agricultural Authority (RADA), at Pawsey Park in Lionel Town, Clarendon on November 29. The job fair sought to target displaced sugar workers, their families, and community members from the Monymusk area and is a planned strategy by the Government to provide assistance to the displaced sugar workers.
Sugar workers transitioning to farming to benefit from 2,400 tonnes of fertilizers from Morocco
Residents of Lionel Town and surrounding areas of Clarendon, who were previously employed to the closed Monymusk Sugar Factory and intend to pursue farming on acreages of former sugar lands, are to benefit from input materials such as seeds and fertilisers. The fertiliser is to be sourced from some 2,400 tonnes being provided by the Kingdom of Morocco to the Government’s Production Incentive Programme. State Minister in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green, confirmed that 48 containers of fertilisers were received from the North African nation as a...
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