Floyd Green, minister of agriculture, fisheries and mining (Photo: Joseph Wellington)
AGRICULTURE Minister Floyd Green on Tuesday laid bare a staggering bill of $29.5 billion worth of devastation to the sector from Hurricane Melissa, describing scenes of ruin “beyond living memory”. But he has declared with firm resolve that the recovery for thousands of farmers has already begun.
In a sobering statement to the Houses of Parliament, Green revealed that the Category 5 hurricane, which made landfall on October 28, has affected some 41,390 hectares of farmland and impacted more than 70,000 farmers across the nation’s most
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