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10 June 2025

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Hon. Floyd Green (centre), interacts with Clarendon-based cocoa farmers Winston Taylor from Colonel Ridge and Melonie Haye from Blackwoods, during a ceremony to hand over materials for Cocoa Frosty Pod disease mitigation, at the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) Clarendon parish office in May Pen on Thursday (June 5).

Ground to Be Broken Next Month for New Sugar Factory in Clarendon

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 10 Jun 2025   

Plans are well advanced for the construction of a new sugar factory in Clarendon, with ground set to be broken next month.

The investor has already leased 12,000 acres for sugar-cane cultivation and secured 27 acres for the factory’s development.

This was disclosed by Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Hon. Floyd Green, while addressing the handover ceremony for materials to farmer beneficiaries under the Cocoa Frosty Pod Disease Management Programme at the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) Clarendon parish office in May Pen on Thursday (June 5)....

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