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September 11, 2018

Hon. Audley Shaw (left), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, views Irish potato sucker while Alvin Murray (2nd left), Project Coordinator, World University Service of Canada Caribbean PROPEL, explains tissue culture technology used to develop plant. Others from left are Donald Robinson, Agricultural Extension Facilitator, Promotion of Regional Opportunities for Produce through Enterprises and Linkages (PROPEL), and Dr. Sherrefa Burchell, Director, Agriculture Research Centre at the Northern Caribbean University. The occasion was the Youth Employment Creation in Agriculture and Agro-Processing Public Forum, held at the Cobbla Campus of Knox Community College in Manchester on September 7. The forum explored economic opportunities available in agriculture for young people.

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