Help Jamaican Students Become Organic Farmers

JAMAICAN AGRICULTURE STUDENTS NEED YOUR HELP!

Through our ‘Young Soldiers for Food Security’ program, Farm Up Jamaica Ltd. has been giving students, from several agriculture schools, the opportunity to gain practical farming experience by working on our an Organic farm- every weekend. We have been providing them with transportation, room and board, and a stipend to inspire them to create a vision for themselves that can positively impact their communities while preparing them to transition into Jamaica’s next generation of environmentally-conscious farmers. When these students graduate, we will offer them job placement with profit sharing and entreprenuership opportunities in order to incentivize and promote the much-needed farming profession.

(1) student's working weekend visit on a farm. Over 300 students will gain practical organic-farming experience while helping to reduce the importation of food into the country! In 2016, select students will be assigned their own 1-acre farms complete with business plans, markets and assistance. With your help, these students will carry the torch and help safeguard food security by becoming the next generation of, Jamaican agri-entrepreneurs.

(3) charitable organization formed to help repair a Jamaica’s agriculture sector through sustainable, climate-smart, organic farming. Most people in Jamaica believe that farming is for the poor. Not many farmers on the island have been trained to do large-scale farming and resort to subsistence farming just to get by. Most farming is performed through conventional techniques, which are not conducive to our environment or to our healt