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22 September 2016

Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Karl Samuda (right), listens as technical representative for Canadian entity Lambert Peat Moss Inc., Ramon Alvarado (left), provides details on a bag of plant seeds produced by the company, which was on display during a stakeholder seminar at Caymanas Golf and Country Club in St. Catherine on Tuesday, September 20. The seminar was jointly staged by Lambert Peat and Jamaica Floral Products Limited/Evergrow Garden Centre under the theme ‘High Quality Growing Media at the Root of High Quality Seedling Growth and Crop Production’. Also listening (from 2nd left) are Lambert Peat’s International Sales Manager, Richard De Quesada; and Jamaica Floral Products Limited/Evergrow Garden Centre General Manager, Burrell Scarlett.

Agriculture Minister wants more Youth Involved in Sector

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 22 Sep 2016   

The Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda, continues to push for more young people to get involved in the agriculture sector.
“We have to get (more) young people working to ensure that we grow the crops we need in sufficient quantities and to also enable us to export. Let’s have an explosion of youthful participation so that we can be assured that the sector will grow,” he said, while speaking at a stakeholders’ seminar at the Caymanas Golf and Country Club in St. Catherine on Tuesday, September 20.
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