Galina Sotirova (right), World Bank Country Manager for Jamaica, cuts ribbon for the St. Mary Multi-Purpose Cooperative Cold Storage Facility in Iterboreale, St. Mary, on Friday, May 26. Others from left are Winston Simpson, principal director, Rural Agricultural Development Authority; Dr Winston Green, Member of Parliament, South East St Mary; Donovan Stanberry, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries; Althea McFarlane, marketing officer at the St. Mary Multi-purpose Cooperative; and Dwight Ricketts, Senior Field Operations Manager, Jamaica Social Investment Fund. Funded by the World Bank to the tune of over $19.5m, the project is aimed at increasing the quality and volume of products sold by the farmers and was carried out in partnership with JSIF, RADA, and the St. Mary Multi-Purpose Cooperative.
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29 May 2017
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Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Donovan Stanberry had high praises for the St. Mary Multi-purpose Cooperative Cold Storage Facility, noting that it represented part of the consummation of the marriage between industry and commerce and agriculture and fisheries. Speaking at the handover of the multi-purpose cold storage facility in Iterboreale, St. Mary, on Friday, May 26, Stanberry said that production would increase if farmers were properly organised and incentivised and were assured of having more facilities like the St Mary cold storage...
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