ROBIN’S BAY, St Mary:
radical health initiative could help generate employment and at least $1 million per year for farmers throughout St Mary and Portland, according to President of the North East Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Arlington Woodburn.
In an effort to promote his organisation’s ‘Save Our Schools Through Industries and Commitments’ (SOSTIC) project, Woodburn and his team, last weekhosted an agricultural summit in Robin’s Bay, St Mary.
The three-day conference, which featured a series of guest speakers from the US-based Adventist Agricultural Association (AAA), is part of a wider scheme that aims to increase profits for local farmers by supporting them with training, networking, and grant-financing opportunities.
Woodburn told Family and Religion: “This programme is about beginning the process of seeking to find a cadre of people who can be trained as professional farmers. Most of the folks we’re targeting, young and old, are already farmers.
