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Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness says his country needs a commercial ecosystem that promotes long-term investment in the agricultural sector to significantly boost national outputs and fully sustain visitors to the island.
Holness told delegates attending the Caribbean Poultry Association (CPA) Eighth International Technical Symposium and Exhibition that ends here on Thursday that with more than four million visitors coming to Jamaica annually, collaboration between the agriculture and tourism sectors is essential to ensure that the island’s authentic experience extends to its food.
Holness highlighted the poultry industry’s success in utilising long-term supply contracts as a model for the agriculture sector to adopt, saying “the model that has been developed and has worked so well in the poultry industry is that you give your farmers long-term supply contracts so they can make, up-front, the investment, and know it will be secured in terms of the recovery of that investment over time”
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