Shaw urges 4-H clubbites to pursue excellence
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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon. Audley Shaw, is urging the country’s over 104,000 4-H Club members to pursue excellence and to make a difference in all they do.
“Don’t let anybody tamper with your ambition,” the Minister told the young people, as he addressed them at the Jamaica 4-H Clubs National Achievement Expo held Friday, April 27 at the Denbigh Showground in Clarendon.
Minister Shaw, who himself had been a National 4-H Club President, congratulated the movement for the 17% growth in membership over the past three years. This, he said, made the Jamaica 4-H Clubs the second largest in the world.
Commenting on the displays at the expo, Minister Shaw noted the level of innovation employed and said that he was impressed by the entrepreneurship exhibited. He said he had been equally impressed at the recently held Jamaica Expo 2018 and that there should no longer be any questions about Jamaica being a country of samples, but that the country should move away from that image and increase production for both self-sufficiency and for export.
The Agriculture Minister outlined the current plans to match idle lands with idle hands in order to increase agricultural production.
Shanique Dawkins from Clarendon and Rovani Scott of Hanover were awarded Jamaica 4-H Clubs National Boy and Girl of the Year, for which they each received $1 million from the Ministry of Industry Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries.
This year’s expo was held under the theme “Promoting AgriBusiness, Sustaining the Environment”.
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