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Agriculture Minister Alfred Prospere has praised his predecessor, Ezechiel Joseph, for his recent opening of a new agro-processing plant in Babonneau.
Joseph a former Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Spatial Planning, Natural Resources and Cooperatives, as well as former MP for Babonneau is a co-owner of J’s Agro-Gladen.
The new facility will dehydrate fruit and other farm produce to create items such as bananas and bread flour.
“I think this is a very good thing for him,” Agriculture Minister Alfred Prospere said of his predecessor’s venture.
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And he told reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting on Monday that Jozefi, as a former agriculture minister, understands the importance of the agro-processing sub-sector.
“Soon after he opened his facility, a new facility opened in Desruisseaux—a cassava factory where they’re actually making flour,” Prospere recalls.
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“This is a very important sub-sector in the agriculture sector that needs to be pushed because it provides opportunities for a number of those people who are not directly involved in the actual growing of crops but using the crops to produce by-products,” U said. the ministry to journalists.
Header photo: (L to R) Alfred Prospere & Ezechiel Joseph
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