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The Pedro Plains Irrigation Expansion Project has been designated a national development project allowing for greater speed and efficiency in its execution.

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Hon. Floyd Green, made the disclosure at the launch and groundbreaking ceremony in Short Hill, St. Elizabeth on Friday (July 11).

Being undertaken at a cost of some $26 billion, the project will bring 4,000 hectares of fertile land in south St. Elizabeth under irrigation and will benefit up to 6,000 farmers and households.

Construction will begin this year, with...

Some 200 small farmers, who occupy lands in south St. Elizabeth, are now proud property owners.

The beneficiaries were presented with titles during the ground-breaking ceremony for the Pedro Plains Irrigation Expansion Project in the parish on Thursday (July 10).

They are the first set of about 1000 persons, who will benefit from land titles generated free of cost under the $26 billion project.

Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, said the land titling exercise is a critical part of the broader infrastructure development, which aims to transform informal...