Cassava snack: a 'chip' off the old block for JP
Published: Thursday | July 9, 2009
From left: Florence Peart, operations manager, JP Tropical Foods; David Martin (partly hidden), JP general manager; Charles Johnston, JP group chairman; Dr Christopher Tufton, minister of agriculture and fisheries; Tarn Peralto, member of Parliament; Al Powell, executive director of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority; Jeffrey Hall, managing director of JP Group; and Paul Bates, chief operating officer, JP Europe Division. The group enjoyed the taste of JP Tropical Foods' latest offering - barbecued cassava chips - during a tour of JP Farm in Annotto Bay, St Mary, last Friday. - Contributed
Minister of Agriculture Dr Christopher Tufton on Friday toured the 600-acre 'JP Farm' in Annotto Bay, St Mary, where he was presented with barbecued cassava chips, the latest product offering of JP Tropical Foods.
Jamaica Producers (JP) Group Chairman Charles Johnston and the JP management made the presentation to the minister, who identified JP as a leader in agro-processing in Jamaica today.
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JP redeveloped the 600-acre estate after Tropical Storm Gustav in August 2008. The former banana-export estate is now a mixed-use farm cultivating bananas, sweet potatoes, pineapples and cassava, and is vertically integrated with the company's state-of-the-art tropical snack-food manufacturing facility. The recently redeveloped estate and factory now employ approximately 350 people.
