Let's use agro parks to combat drought, says Kellier

Derrick Kellier, the acting minister of agriculture and fisheries, has announced that the ministry has begun to put measures in place to make agro parks and greenhouse farming a viable option to combat Jamaica's ongoing drought conditions.  "If the projections of the Meteorological Service hold, in terms of a worsening of the drought situation going forward, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries will employ additional measures to secure the nation's food supply," said Kellier, while giving the keynote address at the opening of the Bethel Town Agricultural Cooperative Society's new sorrel drink processing facility in Bethel Town, Westmoreland.