| RCS/Y3073E/17-23 contains: |
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The school feeding programme sponsored by the Jamaican Ministry of Education ensures a nutritious lunch for each child attending Primary School, thus making it easier for learning to take place |
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Careful packaging is essential to ensure that high quality bananas arrive on the export market |
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Jamaica's Blue Mountain coffee is renowned for its delicious flavour. Here, coffee berries are being sprayed against the coffee berry borer disease to ensure that the high quality is maintained |
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This familiar sight along the Jamaican countryside shows the effect of the lethal yellowing disease which devastated the coconut industry in the 1970s. The Jamaica Tall as a commercially viable variety of coconut was completely wiped out |
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After extensive research, the Malayan Dwarf was found to be highly resistant to the lethal yellowing disease, hence its importance to the Jamaican coconut industry as a replacement for the Jamaica Tall |
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Dr Thomas Lecky receiving the Order of Merit in 1978 from the Governor General of Jamaica in recognition of his outstanding work in the field of cattle breeding |
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The Jamaica Hope, product of many years of research by Dr Lecky, is a cross between the Jersey and the Zebu of India |
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Jamaica 1959-1982
| Title |
The Jamaica Hope, product of many years of research by Dr Lecky, is a cross between the Jersey and the Zebu of India |
| Reference |
Y3073E/23 |
| Creator |
Bryce, Thomas, fl 1978 |
| Extent and Medium |
Good condition. |
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| Content and context |
250 x 200 mm. The caption continues 'The Indian strain in the Jamaica Hope makes it particularly suited to Tropical climates, while still producing a high quality and quantity of milk'. Jamaica Information Service photograph by Thomas Bryce. |
| Further information |
Indexed |
| Index Terms |
| Greater Antilles |
| Jamaica |
| North and Central America |
| West Indies |
| Jamaica Information Service |
| Bryce, Thomas (fl 1978) |
| No further on-line information. |
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