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Minister without Portfolio, Ministry of Transport, Works, and Housing, Hon. Dr. Morais Guy (right), assists Head, European Union (EU) Delegation in Jamaica, Ambassador Paola Amadei (2nd right), to perform the symbolic ribbon-cutting exercise to formally launch the $718 million (€4.73 million) four-year EU Jamaica Banana Accompanying Measures (JBAM) Programme, at the St. Mary Parish Church Hall, Port Maria, St. Mary, on May 14. Dr. Guy represented Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Roger Clarke. Also participating in the exercise are: Chairperson, All Island Banana Growers Association (AIBGA), Gretel Sessing (left); General Manager, Banana Board, Janet Conie (2nd left); former Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Senator Robert Montague (left, background); and Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) Chief Executive Officer, Lenworth Fulton.
Minister without Portfolio, Ministry of Transport, Works, and Housing, Hon. Dr. Morais Guy (right), assists Head, European Union (EU) Delegation in Jamaica, Ambassador Paola Amadei (2nd right), to perform the symbolic ribbon-cutting exercise to formally launch the $718 million (€4.73 million) four-year EU Jamaica Banana Accompanying Measures (JBAM) Programme, at the St. Mary Parish Church Hall, Port Maria, St. Mary, on May 14. Dr. Guy represented Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Roger Clarke. Also participating in the exercise are: Chairperson, All Island Banana Growers Association (AIBGA), Gretel Sessing (left); General Manager, Banana Board, Janet Conie (2nd left); former Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Senator Robert Montague (left, background); and Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) Chief Executive Officer, Lenworth Fulton.

Banana Farmers to Benefit from $718 Million Assistance Programme

By: Douglas McIntosh, May 15, 2014
More than 2,000 banana and plantain farmers and workers will benefit significantly from provisions under the European Union’s $718 million (€4.73 million) Jamaica Banana Accompanying Measures (JBAM) programme, to be...
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Roger Clarke (centre), in conversation with Chairman of the Alpart Community Council, Lenworth Blake (left), while Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) Representative, Pastor Michael Harvey (second left) and Alpart's Public Relations Officer, Julian Keane, look on, during a tour of the drip irrigation project that was handed over to farmers at Nain, in St. Elizabeth, on Friday, May 2.

Farmers in St. Elizabeth to Benefit from Drip Irrigation System

By: Glenis A. Rose, May 5, 2014
Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Roger Clarke (Right), performs the symbolic ribbon cutting exercise to formally open and commission the $9.3 million Alpart Community Council drip irrigation system in Nain, St. Elizabeth, on May 2.

$9.3M Irrigation System Commissioned in Nain, St. Elizabeth

By: Glenis A. Rose, May 5, 2014

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