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Minister without Portfolio in the Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon. J.C. Hutchinson, says that an agro-economic zone to be operated by a private investor will be coming on stream next year in the parish of Hanover. He was speaking at the handover of a honey extraction and bottling facility constructed by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) in Lucea, Hanover, on July 6.
He encouraged the farmers to produce not just honey, but also other produce as the agro-economic zone would provide farmers of Hanover, Westmoreland and St. James with a ready...

Hon J.C. Hutchinson (2nd left), Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries; and Omar Sweeney (right), Managing Director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), view bottles of honey labelled by Maxine Blagrove during a tour of the $30-m honey extraction and bottling facility that was handed over by JSIF to the Hanover Bee Farmers Co-operative Society on July 6 in Lucea, Hanover.