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A total of 200 coffee farmers from communities in the Blue Mountain areas of St. Andrew are set to benefit from the distribution of 50,000 coffee seedlings with the establishment of the Blue Mountain coffee nursery.
This is being made possible under the Japanese Government’s Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Project and will impact farmers from Woodford, Red Light, Middleton, Sugar Loaf, Settlement, Penfield and Irish Town.
The project, which is being implemented by the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA), is funded by the Embassy of...

Deputy Chairman of the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA), John Minott (left), presents farmer Clifford Jonas of Red Light, Irish Town with a coffee seedling at a handover ceremony of the seedlings to farmers, at Ueshima Coffee Company Limited in Rose Hill, Woodford, St. Andrew on October 4.

Chief Planning Analyst in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Karl Hyatt (second left) looks on as Japanese Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Hiromasa Yamazaki (right), makes a point at a handover ceremony of coffee seedlings to farmers, at Ueshima Coffee Company Limited in Rose Hill, Woodford, St. Andrew on October 4. Others from left listening in are Acting Director General of the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA), Gusland McCook and Councillor of the Gordon Town Division in East Rural St. Andrew, Neville Whittaker.

Chief Planning Analyst in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Karl Hyatt (left) participates in the ribbon cutting ceremony to symbolically present coffee seedlings to farmers, at Ueshima Coffee Company Limited in Rose Hill, Woodford, St. Andrew on October 4. Others from second left are Acting Director General of the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA), Gusland McCook; Japanese Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Hiromasa Yamazaki, and Councillor of the Gordon Town Division in East Rural St. Andrew, Neville Whittaker.