Jamaica Agri Society ‘brooding’ over decline in production of ‘key crops’

Jamaica’s tradition for producing a wide range of agricultural produce to meet the needs of local consumers as well as to ‘cash in’ on opportunities on the export markets, notably in the agro-processing sector has been, reportedly, coming under critical scrutiny on account of what a report in the February 28th issue of The Observer newspaper says has been “a decline in a number of traditional crops locally,” a circumstance which the report says “have seen stakeholders across the agricultural sector calling for improved policies geared towards rebuilding.”

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