Consumers are being encouraged by Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Hon. Floyd Green, to support the ‘Eat Jamaican’ campaign in order to sustain the local agricultural industry.
“We must ensure that in and out of season, we are eating Jamaican,” he said during the launch of Eat Jamaican Month, being observed in November, at Fruit Blossoms farm in Jericho, St. Catherine, on Thursday (October 31).
“When we eat Jamaican, we are encouraging our farmers and fishers. You are keeping money right here at home, and you are providing a market so that when [the farmers]...