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All across Jamaica mango trees – Julie, East Indian, common mango, blackie, you name it, are blossoming and bearing fruit.
And this mango season is going down in history with the first shipment of Jamaican mangoes to the US on Thursday, June 13.
Speaking at a ceremony to mark the event at the Export Complex at the Sangster Airport in Montego Bay, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon J.C. Hutchinson, declared: “ There is hardly anything more delicious than a ripe Jamaican mango; it is sweet and it is nutritious. So...

Hon. J.C. Hutchinson, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, speaking at the official ceremony for the export of Jamaican mangoes to the United States on June 13, 2019 at the Montego Bay Export Complex in St. James.. Some 12, 000 pounds of mangoes, representing 800 boxes, were shipped to the USA.

Rita Hilton (right), exporter, converses with (from left) Jacent Edwards, farmer, Hon. J.C. Hutchinson, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), and Dalton Hastings, Export Complex Manager, Plant Quarantine/Produce Inspection Branch, MICAF, at the official ceremony for the export of Jamaican mangoes to the USA on June 13, 2019, held at the Montego Bay Export Complex in St. James. Some 12, 000 pounds of mangoes, representing 800 boxes, were shipped to the USA.

Dalton Hastings (left), Export Complex Manager, Plant Quarantine/Produce Inspection Branch, Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), explains export process to (from left) the Hon. J.C. Hutchinson, Minister without Portfolio, MICAF, Christine Wong of the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association, Damian Rowe, Senior Plant Quarantine/SPS Enquiry Point Officer, and Dermon Spence, Acting Permanent Secretary, MICAF , at the official ceremony for the export of Jamaican mangoes to the USA on June 13, 2019. Some 12, 000 pounds of mangoes, representing 800 boxes,...