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August 10, 2022 (JIS)

More Jamaicans, especially the youth, are taking up farming as a lucrative profession, says Executive Director of the Jamaica 4-H Clubs, Dr. Ronald Blake.

He noted that with an average farmer age of 48.7 years, Jamaica has one of the youngest farmer populations in the world, where the average age is 60.

Moreover, he argued “the data [prove] that the multiplier effect of putting a dollar in agriculture is better than putting it in almost any other sector in this country”.

Dr. Blake was speaking at a handover ceremony for lease...