Minister Audley Shaw in conversation with farmers at a Farmer Field School Graduation Ceremony
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Hon Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, in conversation with farmers 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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