Handover ceremony of coffee seedlings to farmers
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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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