Alimi akuyamika pulojekiti ya Content greenhouse ku Williamsfield, Manchester, powathandiza kuti achulukitse zokolola ndi zopindula, ndikuwonjezera phindu lachuma kwa anthu ammudzi.
Ntchitoyi, yomwe idayamba mchaka cha 2017, ikukhudzana ndi kukonzanso malo omwe kale anali opangidwa ndi bauxite kuti azilima.
Alimi 20 akulima mbewu monga nkhaka, mbatata, kabichi, letesi, tsabola wotentha m'ma greenhouses XNUMX, ndikuweta ng'ombe zazing'ono monga mbuzi, kupereka mahotela, masitolo akuluakulu ndi misika ina.
Purezidenti wa projekiti ya Content greenhouse, Earl Williams, adati gulu la alimi latulutsa zokolola zokwana mapaundi 100,000, ndikupeza pafupifupi $16 miliyoni.
Ananenanso kuti 30 peresenti ya ndalama zomwe amapeza "zimayikidwa pambali pamasiku amvula" kuti ntchitoyo ipitirire.
A Williams, omwe amalankhula pamsonkhano waposachedwapa wa anthu, adanena kuti "ntchitoyi yabweretsanso moyo ku Williamsfield," yomwe yakhudzidwa ndi kuchepa kwa kupanga bauxite.
Iye adatinso, "dera lakhala labwino kwa ife" powonetsetsa kuti minda yatetezedwa.
A Williams adati kugwa kwachuma komwe kudabwera chifukwa cha mliri wa coronavirus (COVID-19) kudasokoneza kupanga, koma adawona kuti ntchitoyi ndi yabwino kugwiritsa ntchito mwayi womwe uli pachiwopsezo.
Iye adanena kuti alimi apindula ndi "maphunziro abwino a ulimi ngati bizinesi" kudzera ku Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), ndipo mgwirizano wapangidwa ndi ogula ndi owonjezera phindu kuti agulitse zokolola zapamwamba.
Mkulu wa bungwe la Content Farmers’ Group, Kerise Mighty, yemwe ndi wamng’ono kwambiri m’gululi, komanso m’modzi mwa alimi atatu aakazi, ananena kuti ntchitoyi “yathandiza kuti alimi azipeza ndalama zambiri, zomwe zachuluka m’deralo” .
Ananenanso kuti ntchitoyi ikuthandiza kwambiri m'derali, ikupereka maphunziro aukadaulo wa greenhouse kwa ophunzira akusukulu ya sekondale komanso ngati malo oyendera ophunzira a pulaimale ndi kusekondale.
"Tikuchita zabwino ndipo alimi onse ali ndi ziphaso zaukadaulo wowonjezera kutentha," akutero akudzitamandira.
Project Content greenhouse ndi gawo la Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI)/Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) Greenhouse Cluster and Water Harvesting Project, yomwe ikuchitika kudzera mu thandizo lochokera ku World Bank-Sponsored Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI).
Pansi pa ntchitoyi, maenje okumbidwa opangidwa ndi bauxite amasandutsidwa madamu kuti azipereka madzi othirira otenthetsera ndi kupanga malo otseguka.
Ntchitoyi, yomwe yakhala ikugwira ntchito m'madera asanu ndi atatu kudutsa ma parishi a Manchester, St. Ann ndi St. Elizabeth kuyambira 2014, cholinga chake ndi kupereka moyo wokhazikika kwa anthu okhala m'madera otchedwa bauxite.
Ikufunanso kupititsa patsogolo maulumikizi a ulimi ndi zokopa alendo, kupititsa patsogolo mwayi wopeza misika, komanso kulimbikitsa njira zothana ndi nyengo kwa anthu omwe akufuna kupindula nawo.
Mu Marichi 2021, JSIF ndi JBI adasaina Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) kuti akwaniritse gawo lachiwiri la polojekitiyo pansi pa REDI II.
Alimi opitilira 320 ndi mabanja awo, kuphatikiza magulu omwe ali pachiwopsezo komanso olumala, akuyembekezeka kupindula kwazaka zisanu.
Nazale ya JBI ndi yomwe idapereka mbande zoyambira zoyambira 160 zobiriwira ndipo ikupitilizabe kugawa maguluwo akalandira maoda pazamalonda.
Project Coordinator ku JBI, Clarence Osbourne, adanena kuti Greenhouse Cluster and Water Harvesting Project, yomwe inayamba ku Tobolski ku St. Ann, ndi imodzi mwazinthu zazikulu zomwe zimagulitsa ulimi wang'onoang'ono kumidzi ya Jamaica.
Zimayimira zopereka za $ 200 miliyoni kuchokera ku JSIF, zoposa $ 100 miliyoni kuchokera ku makampani a bauxite, pafupifupi $ 150 miliyoni kuchokera ku JBI, ndi thandizo la Social Development Commission (SDC).
Kwa Wapampando wa JBI Bauxite Community Development Program (BCDP), Angus Gordon, polojekitiyi ndi "chitsanzo chimodzi chokha cha momwe JBI ikubwezereranso ndalama kuchokera ku gawo la bauxite kuti apititse patsogolo miyoyo ya anthu aku Jamaica".
Ananenanso kuti alimi oposa 1,000 awona kuwonjezeka kwa ulimi ndipo apindula ndi maphunziro omwe "amawathandiza kuti azigwira ntchito bwino ndi matekinoloje atsopano pa ulimi".
General Manager wa JBI, Stevie Barnett, kumbali yake, adati ntchitoyi ndi "chinthu chodabwitsa chomwe tachita ndi malo a bauxite".
“Panali chikhulupiliro chakuti minda yokumbidwayo inali yopanda ntchito koma mpaka pano akugwiritsidwanso ntchito potungira madzi,” adatero iye.
Woyang'anira Project ndi JSIF, Kemeisha Batchan, adati kubwera pamodzi kwa JBI ndi JSIF pansi pa Greenhouse Cluster Project kwakhala kopindulitsa, kuchulukitsa zokolola komanso kusintha miyoyo ya alimi omwe apindula.
“Zaonjezera malipiro awo. Pitirizani kulimbikitsa kwambiri thandizo ndi maphunziro,” adalimbikitsa alimiwo.
Gwero: https://jis.gov.jm/