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One of the greenhouses on the site of the Greenhouse Cluster and Water Harvesting Project, in Rose Hill, Manchester. Under the project, the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), and the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI), are collaborating to impart greenhouse technologies to farmers in Manchester, St. Elizabeth and St. Ann, through a $192 million partnership.
One of the greenhouses on the site of the Greenhouse Cluster and Water Harvesting Project, in Rose Hill, Manchester. Under the project, the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), and the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI), are collaborating to impart greenhouse technologies to farmers in Manchester, St. Elizabeth and St. Ann, through a $192 million partnership.

Farmers to Benefit from Major Greenhouse Project

By: Garfield L. Angus, June 2, 2015
Farmers in a number of bauxite mining communities should benefit from greenhouse technologies, through a $192 million project, a collaboration between the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) and the Jamaica...
State Minister for Agriculture, Labour and Social Security, Hon. Luther Buchanan (centre), looks on as Executive Chairman of Lasco Affiliated Companies, Lascelles Chin (right), hands the keys of a new Toyota pickup to Head of the Praedial Larceny Prevention Unit, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Kevin Francis, during a ceremony at the Hope Gardens offices of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, in Kingston today (May 26). Valued at over $4 million, the vehicle will be used to boost the operations of the Unit.

Praedial Larceny Prevention Unit Recovers 130 Stolen Animals

By: Alecia Smith-Edwards, May 26, 2015
United States Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Luis Moreno (centre), pose with members from the first cohort of Peace Corps volunteers to Jamaica in 1962, during the swearing in ceremony for 36 new volunteers to the island, held on May 22, at the Ambassador’s residence in Kingston.

Farmers to be Trained in Environmentally-Friendly Practices

By: Chris Patterson, May 25, 2015

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