Hon. Audley Shaw in discussion with CEO Peter Thompson
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Hon Audley Shaw (left), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries; in conversation with Peter Thompson, Chief Executive Officer of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority; at a Farmer Field School Graduation Ceremony held in Kingston on May 17 at which 166 farmers from the communities of Windsor Forest, Ness Castle and Richmond Gap in St Thomas and Mavis Bank and Bloxburgh in St. Andrew received certificates in climate-smart land husbandry following completion of a 13-week practical programme coordinated by the National Environment Planning Agency and facilitated by the Rural Agricultural Development Authority.
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