Vernon: There is money in farming

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Vernon: There is money in farming

WESTERN BUREAU: AS JAMAICA slowly returns to some semblance of normality following the past two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, Montego Bay’s Acting Mayor Richard Vernon is urging young people to get involved in farming, in order to bolster Jamaica...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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