Jamaica: hurricane knocks out immediate potential of new plant. (Hurricane Gilbert)

Tea & Coffee Trade Journal | June 1, 1989 | Copyright

Jamaica: Hurricane knocks out immediate potential of new plant

When the $29M (Jamaican) central grading and finishing plant at Tarentum, Salt River, Clarendon is completed, it will have no coffee to process for at least three or four years, according to the Jamaican Weekly Gleaner.

This is a direct result of Hurricane Gilbert which destroyed more than 50 percent of coffee plantations islandwide on September 12, 1988.

The Tarentum plant will not meet the November 1989 completion date but the project is neither "abnormally behind schedule nor ...

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