Holness directed Agriculture Minister Floyd Green to transform St. James Southern as part of a development plan focused on agriculture, healthcare and civil infrastructure.
He pointed out that there are agricultural parks in the country where state and private agricultural lands are analyzed in detail and then producers are placed on them and provided with seedlings and marketing support.
In St James Southern we will set up several agricultural parks where we will find young people interested in the sector, he said.
He also noted the importance of creating agricultural roads in the constituency so that farmers can transport their products to market more efficiently and conveniently, especially in the Catadupa area.
He admitted that water scarcity is one of the factors slowing down agricultural production and explained that the construction of water reservoirs and catchments will solve this problem.
We will again build huge storage tanks like in the 1970s and catchment areas near crops. “In this way, water will be available to us more evenly,” he concluded.
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