The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries will be conducting an assessment of all its leased agricultural lands, to ensure they are being used for financially viable and sustainable activities that can contribute to economic growth and job creation.
This was announced by Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Floyd Green, who noted that this exercise will be carried out by a government-owned land management company, Sugar Company of Jamaica Holdings Limited (SCJH).
“I am putting the lessees on guard. I have given the SCJH strict instructions – if you lease land from the Government, you should be using it; you should be creating jobs; you should be moving the economy, and this is the year of ‘use it or lose it’,” he warned.