Noranda helps to boost farming in Discovery Bay - Business - Jamaica Gleaner - Saturday | May 5, 2012

Noranda helps to boost farming in Discovery Bay - Business - Jamaica Gleaner - Saturday | May 5, 2012: "CALECIA JOHNSON from Farm Town in Discovery Bay is one of several persons who are taking advantage of an economic assistance project started by Noranda Jamaica bauxite company and its community council in January.

In keeping with its mandate to "seek to facilitate or create projects that will generate income and employment independent of the company", the council introduced a programme to start up 44 economic assistance projects in its 11 representative districts this year.

Calecia, with encouragement from her council representatives Keneen Hunt and Althea Scott, applied for a grant from Noranda to start a backyard chicken-rearing project. She started on February 16 with 50 chickens and three bags of feed provided by the company, and has already rolled over her first batch into a second batch by purchasing 70 chickens from her first sales."

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