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As efforts to boost the agricultural sector through collaboration with the manufacturing sector intensifies, President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), Senator Norman Grant has said that in 2004, the JAS and the Jamaica Manufacturers Association (JMA) would ‘work’ the MOU signed between both organisations, to the advancement of farmers through the operation of the central marketing company. “We will...

Orchid lovers from Jamaica and those visiting from abroad will be able to view several varieties on January 18, when the Ocho Rios Orchid Society in St. Ann stages its ninth orchid show at the Jamaica Grande Hotel, in the resort town, from 11: 00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Dubbed ‘Orchid 2004’, the show will be boosted by the participation...

Some 14 farmers from Mafoota in St. James are pursuing a twelve-week training course in Co-operative Management, with a view to having their group enlisted as a registered co-operative. The farmers, who have been operating as a special group participating in the Sandals/RADA Mafoota vegetable project for some time now, are taking this step to better manage their operations, and...