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MONTEGO BAY, August 4 (JIS):

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green, on Tuesday (August 3) officially launched the $50 million National Small Ruminant Development Programme at the Hounslow Research Station in St. Elizabeth.

The programme is geared towards rapidly increasing the population of primarily goat and sheep, thus increasing the local production, productivity and quality of small ruminant meat and milk.

This is to be achieved through the purchase and distribution of mature bucks to expand breeding support to small ruminant...