Sunday, February 5, 2017

Local carrots, bananas and other produce needed for Jamaica’s school feeding programme


During a recent tour of Nutrition Productions Ltd (NPL), CEO Orville Lewinson revealed that more carrots and bananas were needed to process lunches and juice drinks for daily delivery to children in Jamaica’s public school system.

Mr. Lewinson said persons wishing to sell produce to NPL should contact their local office of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA).

The Hon. Ruel Reid, Minister of Education, Youth and Information toured NPL’s Kingston plant recently where he discussed government’s plans to provided lunches to more of Jamaica’s vulnerable students.

NPL provides more than 92,000 lunches to students daily more three plants through its network of 35 vehicles.



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