Two secondary schools in Manchester, Jamaica, are set to see the benefits from the use of vertical hydroponic towers in the enhancement of agricultural programmes for students. The schools namely, Manchester High and Holmwood Technical High, were presented with the towers on Thursday during a handing over ceremony in Mandeville.
Chief Executive Officer at the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), Garnet Edmondson, said hydroponics makes agriculture attractive.
"Our younger minds don't like to go outside and till the soil. They don't want to take up a cutlass. They don't want to drive tractors, so the new technology of tower farms will attract them and bring a new era of production in agriculture," he said.
"You can grow multiple plants in this one tower and that gives you an advantage right away…so in investing in schools this way I do hope that the schools will take on these towers and want to multiply," he added. He also committed to lobby for the repair of a greenhouse at Manchester High and the presentation of another there.
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