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Eat Jmaican Month November 2017

Grow What We Eat....Eat What We Grow

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Hon Karl Samuda, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, expresses appreciation to the Ambassador Malgorzata Wasilewska (seated, centre), Head of the European Union Delegation in Jamaica, and Keleen Young-Grandison, head of the Ministry's Sugar Transformation Unit, for their contribution to the construction of the Clark's Town Library in Trelawny during a tour of the facility on November 2.

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon Karl Samuda, is encouraging stakeholders in the sugar industry to have a positive outlook on the sector and to “move forward with the confidence that this industry will rise again”.
Minister Samuda, who was speaking at the 80th annual conference of the Jamaica Association of Sugar Technologists (JAST) November 2 in Ocho Rios, said there was “an enormous reservoir of potential” in the sugar cane industry.
The agriculture minister said that in comparison to the US$370 per tonne paid for raw sugar in the European...