This year comes with promises and problems, but two events last week reminded us that courage and perseverance will make it a successful one. Last Monday's opening of the $6.2-billion plant in Mon.
Bernard Lodge farmer Paul Heny, who now cultivates just a two-acre plot as he awaits relocation, is insisting that the lands are better suited for agriculture and have been producing world-class yields.
Veteran farmer Paul Henry is well aware of the potential of the 26-acre parcel of land he will be forced to give up when the Sugar Company of Jamaica (SCJ) Holdings Limited takes control of the property on the former Bernard Lodge Sugar Estates in St Catherine.
He has already been forced to scale down operations to a measly two acres on which he has a crop of sweet corns in light of his pending relocation to land yet to be identified and prepared for his occupation by the SCJ.