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Business
Sugar production surpasses target
JAMAICA'S SUGAR industry has recorded improved production for the crop year 1999-2000 with 216,387 metric tonnes of sugar being produced, surpassing the targeted amount of 205,000 metric tonnes. The crop year ended on July 19 with the Long Pond factory...
Youth in
dairy farming
training
A SIX-MONTH pilot programme to train young people in dairy farming got underway yesterday although sources at the Jamaica Dairy Farmers Federation described the number of applications received and the level of interest shown in the programme as...
JAS executive goes into retreat
THE TOP brass of the Jamaica Agricultural Society under returned president Hon. A. A. Bobby Pottinger will go into a retreat next weekend to brainstorm how to revitalise the organisation and increase its effectiveness islandwide. Chief on the agenda...
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