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Executive Director of the Jamaica 4-H Clubs, Dr Ronald Blake, conversing with students from the St Ann-based Ocho Rios High School at the 2016 staging of the National Achievement Expo, held at the Denbigh Showground in May Pen, Clarendon.
The Jamaica 4-H Clubs will be introducing new initiatives and programmes in 2021 to engage more young Jamaicans in the business of agriculture.
Executive Director of the organisation, Dr Ronald Blake, told JIS News
that the first quarter of the new year, between January and March, will be spent training 500 youth farmers and providing them with agricultural inputs.
In addition, persons will be assisted to access government-owned lands to start farming ventures.