Agriculture Sector To Play Key Role In Country’s Recovery

• President of the Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), Diane Edwards, says Jamaica’s agriculture sector will be key to the country’s recovery from the coronavirus (COVID 19) pandemic.
• She told JIS News that the large acreages of land currently under production, as well as the linkages with other sectors, present a number of opportunities for Jamaican entrepreneurs to exploit. She noted that increasing production to supply the demand for Jamaican produce would position the country to recover quickly.
• “We have supply lines, we have markets that have already been identified and, in fact, in most of the overseas markets we have seen that we are not producing enough to fulfil them,” Ms. Edwards said.
• “So I think in the short-term there are some extraordinary measures that we are going to have to take, but if we take them, I think we can see agribusiness return to a pretty robust and even expanded level of production,” she added.

(Source: JIS)