GOVERNOR General Sir Patrick Allen has urged stakeholders in the agricultural sector to unite to make farming more attractive to young people in the country.
Sir Patrick, who was speaking Monday following a tour of the Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show in Clarendon, said he was encouraged by what he saw, but insisted that "the survival of our agricultural sector is in the hands of our young farmers".
In the meantime, he encouraged farmers to move with the times. "We cannot do the same thing year after year with the same technology and expect bigger and larger results. Now is the time when we must leave and extend the borders of our imagination and implementation," Sir Patrick said.
"We must move with the times and employ even more cutting-edge technology to increase yields and production in the sector," he said. "If we do not keep up with the times, the times will leave us," warned the governor general.
President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society Norman Grant said he was impressed with produce on display at the event this year, and supported calls for greater partnership to fight praedial larceny, which he said was threatening to cripple the sector.
A number of farmers earlier called for action to be taken against praedial larceny, saying the problem was pushing young people away from the sector.
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