Ground broken for Manchester cold storage facility to benefit 1,500 farmers

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining Floyd Green (fourth left), breaks ground for the establishment of a cold storage facility at the Content Greenhouse Cluster in Kirkvine, Manchester, on February 20, 2025. He is joined by (from left) Contractor, James Samson; Senior Environmental Specialist/Programme Leader, World Bank, John Bryant Collier; Councillor-Caretaker for the Knockpatrick Division, Adeka Miller; Managing Director, Jamaica Social Investment Fund, Omar Sweeney; Mayor of Mandeville, Donovan Mitchell; Custos of the parish, Garfield Green; and Chief Executive Officer, Agro-Investment Corporation, Vivion Scully.
February 21, 2025
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Ground has been broken for a $124-million cold storage facility at the greenhouse cluster in Content, Kirkvine, Manchester, which is expected to benefit more than 1,500 farmers and producers.

The initiative is being implemented by the Government of Jamaica through the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) under its Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI) II.

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