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08 September 2021

INVESTORS INVITED FOR MANGO AGRO PARK

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 08 Sep 2021   

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KINGSTON, September 6 (JIS): Agro-Investment Corporation (Agro-Invest) is seeking interested persons to invest in more than 1,000 acres of land in Toll Gate, Clarendon, that have been reserved for a Mango Agro Park.   

“Currently, we are trying to seek [local and] overseas investors as well, and the response, so far, has been great,” Marketing and Communications Manager at Agro-Invest, Alecia Brown-Forbes, told JIS News.

“We have received 16 solid applications that we can consider, but we are still seeking more overseas investors,” she noted. ...

Reshaping Food Systems Requires Multi-Stakeholder Approach

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 08 Sep 2021   

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green, says that transforming the island’s food systems will require robust multi-stakeholder effort, with both the public and private sectors, as well as international partners, working hand in hand to ensure that “we get it done”. 

“We have to work together to see how we can make our food systems more resilient,” he said, noting that among the critical areas for consideration are “how can we truly engage and transform our food systems to withstand the ravages of climate change and how can we leverage tighter production and social...

Gov’t Working To Transform Country’s Food Systems

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 08 Sep 2021   

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green, says the Ministry will continue to partner with local and international stakeholders to transform Jamaica’s food systems in order to ensure food security.

“We are serious at the Ministry in working with our European Union (EU) and United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) partners and across sectors and the Government, to ensure that we reimagine agriculture and fisheries, that we reshape our food systems to make them more sustainable, more equitable, more inclusive especially for our youth and women, more...

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