Former sugar workers seize chance to prove themselves as independent farmers

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Former sugar workers seize chance to prove themselves as independent farmers

Some ex-sugar workers in St Thomas who lost their jobs at the shuttered Golden Grove Sugar Factory are counting that displacement as a blessing in disguise. Some cultivators have established their own farms on sugar lands that have been repurposed...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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