Jamaican program envisions greenhouses on mining grounds
The minister was accompanied by executive director of the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI) Parris Lyew-Ayee and managing director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) Omar Sweeney.
He was welcomed to Noranda by General Manger Antoine Liddell and taken on a tour of two greenhouse clusters being developed by a partnership of the JBI, JSIF and Noranda Bauxite at Watt Town and Tobolski. A third cluster under this partnership is being developed at Nine Miles.
The greenhouses have been built by the JSIF and JBI in partnership with Noranda, as part of a project to encourage farmers to maximise their agricultural production by investing in greenhouse technology on mined-out bauxite lands.
Lyew-Ayee said that the partnership programme, which commenced in 2015, envisions 160 greenhouses across the bauxite industry, with 60 already built in Watt Town, Tobolski and Nine Miles. The project is also underway in Manchester, St Elizabeth, and St Catherine.
He said that the two greenhouse clusters at Watt Town and Tobolski have already produced over 45,000 lb of sweet pepper and tomatoes from a combined 60 days of reaping.
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