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<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Jamaican student wins ...a (Gleaner)...</span>
THE MERE mention of agriculture conjures, for many, images of a hardened, wrinkled farmer with a feeble donkey and old, muddy boots.However, Tyrone Hall, a 23-year-old Jamaican graduate student at Clark University in the United States, is hoping that a new wave of young agriculturists will sweep the farm sector.Hall, a former radio student at the Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication (CARIMAC) at the University of the West Indies, Mona, recently won the Agricultural Rural Development of Youth in the Information Society project's Youth and Information Communication Technology essay competition.The competition included entries from hundreds of African and Caribbean university students, and the CARIMAC graduate won the opportunity to represent the region.In November, he flew to Johannesburg, South Africa, where he competed against representatives from the Pacific islands and Africa. Hall beat all comers with a proposal to use existing technologies to counteract crop and animal theft.In Johannesburg, he advocated the use of a mobile-security innovation called the Electronic Laser Fence Security Alert System, developed by compatriot Rohan Smith, which sends a text message or makes a call to the owner's cellphone once his electronic fence has been breached.Hall, who is pursuing a master's in international development and social change at Boston-based Clark University, believes this and similar technology will, if fully embraced, combat the scourge of farm theft.His essay also addressed poor marketing in the agricultural sector and outlined ways to challenge this through cellphone technology.For the Meadowbrook High School alumnus, the South African experience was an enlightening one, and he enjoyed the cultural exchange with other young leaders."Most of us came from developing countries that are facing food-security issues and, thus, could relate to each other. Praedial larceny has the potential to destroy the livelihoods of so many and, if not fully uprooted, will destabilise the entire sector," said Hall.He wants college students to be more engaged in solving agricultural issues and to become players in the industry."It's truly unbelievable that in 2010 people still have that flat, undynamic view of the sector. There are huge opportunities, especially in agroprocessing. ... Young people need to get with it."
<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Jamaican student wins ...a (Gleaner)...</span>
THE MERE mention of agriculture conjures, for many, images of a hardened, wrinkled farmer with a feeble donkey and old, muddy boots.However, Tyrone Hall, a 23-year-old Jamaican graduate student at Clark University in the United States, is hoping that a new wave of young agriculturists will sweep the farm sector.Hall, a former radio student at the Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication (CARIMAC) at the University of the West Indies, Mona, recently won the Agricultural Rural Development of Youth in the Information Society project's Youth and Information Communication Technology essay competition.The competition included entries from hundreds of African and Caribbean university students, and the CARIMAC graduate won the opportunity to represent the region.In November, he flew to Johannesburg, South Africa, where he competed against representatives from the Pacific islands and Africa. Hall beat all comers with a proposal to use existing technologies to counteract crop and animal theft.In Johannesburg, he advocated the use of a mobile-security innovation called the Electronic Laser Fence Security Alert System, developed by compatriot Rohan Smith, which sends a text message or makes a call to the owner's cellphone once his electronic fence has been breached.Hall, who is pursuing a master's in international development and social change at Boston-based Clark University, believes this and similar technology will, if fully embraced, combat the scourge of farm theft.His essay also addressed poor marketing in the agricultural sector and outlined ways to challenge this through cellphone technology.For the Meadowbrook High School alumnus, the South African experience was an enlightening one, and he enjoyed the cultural exchange with other young leaders."Most of us came from developing countries that are facing food-security issues and, thus, could relate to each other. Praedial larceny has the potential to destroy the livelihoods of so many and, if not fully uprooted, will destabilise the entire sector," said Hall.He wants college students to be more engaged in solving agricultural issues and to become players in the industry."It's truly unbelievable that in 2010 people still have that flat, undynamic view of the sector. There are huge opportunities, especially in agroprocessing. ... Young people need to get with it."