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$1b for farmers

JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM: "The Government will be providing over $1 billion in loan packages to help farmers meet the challenges of the State's food security programme for 2008/2009, minister of agriculture, Dr Christopher Tufton, revealed yesterday.
The minister, speaking in the budget debate at Gordon House, said that the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) has approved a $250-million loan package to be channelled through the People's Cooperative (PC) banks, credit unions and other micro financing institutions to farmers."

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