MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Scores of farmers are set to benefit from a resilience farm tour courtesy of Isratech Jamaica this Farmers’ Month, five months after their farms were battered by Hurricane Melissa.
Isratech said select farmers will receive free farm assessments, a quarter acre gravity-fed irrigation system, seedling trays, and germination soils.
Technical director at Isratech Jamaica Arturo Ramirez said 286 farmers applied to be part of the initiative. The farm tour is expected to start today in Top Hill, St Elizabeth.
Chief Executive Officer at Isratech Benjamin Hodara said the initiative forms part of the company’s commitment to Jamaican farmers.
“Agriculture is unforgiving at the best of times. You invest months of work and the margin for error is thin. When a hurricane comes through, it doesn’t just damage your crop, it disrupts entire livelihoods; income stops, the cycle breaks, and the path back is horrible… We are going to the farms, because that is where the work is,” he said at Wednesday’s launch of the farm tour at Isratech’s head office in Kendal, Manchester.
Agriculture Minister Floyd Green said Isratech’s farm tour is a data-driven game changer for farmers.
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