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| | Jamaica Gleaner - 'Sugar industry must succeed' - Turnaround pegged on efficiency, mechanisation, modernisation ... |
 | | Roger Clarke (right), Minister of Agriculture, inspects sugar cane yesterday in Ocho Rios, St. Ann, with Karl James (centre), general manager of Jamaica Cane Products Sales Ltd., and Ken Newman, of Cambria Farm, at the 65th annual conference of the Jamaica Association of Sugar Technologists. |
 | | Despite nature's intervention and the general poor performance, Ambassador Heaven remained optimistic, insisting that a return to refining sugar on the island was vital to the future of the industry. |
 | | He pegged his hopes on a "major overseas concern" potentially "funding a significant upgrading of factories", co-generation of power for processing, a recruitment drive to replenish the industry with a skills-based workforce and the recently completed $4.2 billion financial restructuring of the SJC as the chosen platforms for survival. |
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