JAMAICA
Government officials are targeting a $100 million grant from China in hopes of rebuilding the country’s coffee industry infrastructure.
Audley Shaw, the nation’s minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, made the announcement at a recent event hosted by the Jamaica Coffee Exporters Association.
“We are looking at a grant of US $100 million to build out the infrastructure of the Blue Mountain coffee region, and we are working on that now,” Shaw said, according to a report by the Jamaica Observer.
Five veterans of Jamaica's coffee industry – John Oliver “Jackie” Minott; St Clair Shirley; Dr Charles Lyn; Richard Anthony Sharp; and current chairman of the JCEA and former Jamaica Agricultural Society chairman, Norman Grant – were honored at the event.
Shaw made the announcement while giving the keynote address.