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<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Agriculture Ministry t...ce (Gleaner)...</span>
The Ministry of Agriculture says it will be hosting farmers' markets in six parishes on Friday to help to ease the glut in some produce. The parishes are St. Ann, St. Mary, St. Catherine, St. Elizabeth, Clarendon, and Manchester. The One Day Farmers' Market will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at various centralised locations. It will offer consumers the opportunity to purchase a variety of crops including those that are in excess, as well as sugar cane, yellow yam, sweet potato, plantain, pumpkin, carrot,lettuce and tomato. Agriculture Minister Dr. Christopher Tufton says consumers will have the opportunity to purchase the freshest, highest quality vegetables at low prices. He says the One Day Farmers' Market ties into the Ministry's efforts to encourage local consumption through the 'Eat What We Grow and Grow What We Eat' campaign.
<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Agriculture Ministry t...ce (Gleaner)...</span>
The Ministry of Agriculture says it will be hosting farmers' markets in six parishes on Friday to help to ease the glut in some produce. The parishes are St. Ann, St. Mary, St. Catherine, St. Elizabeth, Clarendon, and Manchester. The One Day Farmers' Market will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at various centralised locations. It will offer consumers the opportunity to purchase a variety of crops including those that are in excess, as well as sugar cane, yellow yam, sweet potato, plantain, pumpkin, carrot,lettuce and tomato. Agriculture Minister Dr. Christopher Tufton says consumers will have the opportunity to purchase the freshest, highest quality vegetables at low prices. He says the One Day Farmers' Market ties into the Ministry's efforts to encourage local consumption through the 'Eat What We Grow and Grow What We Eat' campaign.