Acting Director General of the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA), Gusland McCook (centre), receives a coffee seedling from Japanese Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Hiromasa Yamazaki (right), at a handover ceremony of the seedlings to farmers, at Ueshima Coffee Company Limited in Rose Hill, Woodford, St. Andrew on October 4. At right, is Councillor of the Gordon Town Division in East Rural St. Andrew, Neville Whittaker.
Two hundred farmers set to receive 50,000 coffee seedlings
A total of 200 coffee farmers from communities in the Blue Mountain areas of St. Andrew are set to benefit from the distribution of 50,000 coffee seedlings with the establishment of the Blue Mountain coffee nursery. This is being made possible under the Japanese Government’s Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Project and will impact farmers from Woodford, Red Light, Middleton, Sugar Loaf, Settlement, Penfield and Irish Town. The project, which is being implemented by the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA), is funded by the Embassy of Japan in Jamaica to...
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