Deputy Director Michelle Sherwood presents Certificate of Participation in the Ginger Nursery Training Hardening to G1 Workshop to Cosmond James
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Deputy Director, Crop and Plant Protection Unit of the Research and Development Division at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Michelle Sherwood, presents Certificate of Participation in the Ginger Nursery Training Hardening to G1 Workshop to Cosmond James. Under the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nation (FAO) Technical Cooperation Programme on Support for the Development of the Ginger Value Chain in Jamaica, the workshop was held at Bodles Research Station in St. Catherine from October 23-25. Training was conducted FAO Consultant Dr. Duraisamy Saravanakumar.
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