Planting Passion at Ronseaco Farms
If you had to take a wild guess at some of the wishes that would have made it onto Ronald Sealy’s Wish List for 2011, you would not be far off the mark if you’d mentioned “a significant reduction in the length of time it takes to access concessions in the agricultural sector”.
Ronald is a small farmer. He operates Ronseaco Farms in Sturges, St. Thomas where he cultivates primarily christophenes on about two acres.
Ronald trained at the Samuel Jackman Prescod Polytechnic as a mechanic but preferred farming so a little over a year ago, after “things didn’t work out” in his pursuit of a career as a mechanic, he decided to take up farming…
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