Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw (centre), is delighted by the conversation between Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett (right), and Myanmar’s Country Director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Farmer-to-Farmer Programme, Dr. Ai Thanda Kyaw. Occasion was the 2020 staging of the John Ogonowski and Doug Bereuter Farmer-to-Farmer Conference, held at the Liguanea Club in New Kingston on January 6.
Agricultural transformation coming for St. Catherine
Agricultural land transformation in sections of St. Catherine that will bring wealth to several farmers in the area is scheduled to get under way over the next six to twelve months. Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw, says the areas of focus will include Bernard Lodge and Innswood in the parish, which amounts to roughly 6,000 acres of land. “This will be a dynamic partnership of large business operators and small farmers…These large business people have the financial capacity and the technology capacity to work with farmers in a mother farm concept and...
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