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Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Pearnel Charles Jr, speaking at the virtual Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Day event

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Pearnel Charles Jr, speaking at the virtual Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Day event, led by the Consulates General of Jamaica and Japan in New York on January 21. He indicated that the Ministry will be taking a holistic approach to revamp and support the coffee industry which is to include processes involving the establishment and maintenance of the coffee fields to
securing export markets.

Boosting of Coffee Industry high on the Agriculture Ministry’s agenda

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 28 Jan 2022   

 

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...

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