Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Pearnel Charles Jr has indicated that the coffee industry is one of the areas high on the Ministry’s agenda for revamping and boosting.
Coffee is revered as one of Jamaica’s most traded commodities with the Jamaica Blue Mountain (JBM) Coffee hailed as the flagship bean. The Jamaica coffee industry currently has over 4,000 farmers with up 70 per cent of the JBM coffee produced being exported to Japan and 20 per cent to the...