Permanent Secretary Dermon Spence greets Professor Samuel Aggrey of Lumin Consulting
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Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), Dermon Spence (left), greets Professor Samuel Aggrey of Lumin Consulting, at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on Monday, December 2, 2019. The occasion was a training session in Livestock Breeding Strategies and Selection Principles hosted by MICAF in collaboration with Lumin Consulting. Under the Bodles Redevelopment Project, a two-week training, which will run from December 2 to 6 and, December 16 to 20, is organised as part of work being carried out on ‘DNA mapping and Genome Sequencing of the Jamaica Hope Herd’ and will include participants from MICAF’s Research & Development Division and the industry.
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