Coffee production target to be reassessed

Jamaica's coffee production target this year could be derailed due to the effects of the worsening dry spell.

   
There had been a forecast of a 15 per cent increase in production this year, but according to Senator Norman Grant, President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), the circumstances have changed.

He told RJR News that a meeting will be held next month with stakeholders to reassess the situation. This, he said, will allow members to "look at all our numbers, and then we will be able to inddicate exactly what the crop size will be."

Having done that, he said, it will then be possible to estimate "what sort of cost or loss is associated with the long drought we are experiencing."