drought KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Portia Simpson Miller led administration is taking steps to prevent an increase in the price of agricultural produce as the country braces for a severe drought.
Agriculture Minister, Roger Clarke, said the dry spell has started to affect farming areas and this could have implications for the availability as well as the cost of ground produce. But he insists that there was no need for alarm.
“The areas where we can up production, we will just have to concentrate on those areas and those include our greenhouse farmers and areas where we have irrigation systems in place. We just have to find a way to see how we can provide to stimulate added production in those areas. We are working on our agro-parks and preparations going on for productions”.
