Osomabhizinisi abancane baseJamaica emkhakheni wezokuvakasha kanye nezolimo bathola usizo abaludinga kakhulu ngaphansi kohlelo olungu-J $ 52.46 million, olwenzelwe ukubasiza ekululameni ekulimaleni komnotho kwe-COVID-19. Lolu sizo lutholakala ngaphansi kohlelo iRural Economic Development Initiative (REDI II), olubone kuqaliswa ukusebenza kwephrojekthi ekhethekile ye-COVID-19 Resilience and Capacity Building for Agriculture and Community Tourism Enterprises.
Ixhaswe yiBhange Lomhlaba futhi iphethwe yiJamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) uhlelo lweREDI II luzohlomulisa abalimi abayi-1,660, abahlinzeki bemisebenzi yezokuvakasha emphakathini, amaRADA Extension Officers, abasebenzi boMnyango Wezokuvakasha, abaqeqeshi be-TPDCo kanye nabasebenzi besifunda, ngaphezu kwe balinganiselwa ku-18,000 abahlomuli abangaqondile.
ElaseJamaica Ungqongqoshe Wezokuvakasha, Hon. U-Edmund Bartlett ulwamukele lolu hlelo, oluhlose ukusiza ekuvikeleni izimpilo nempilo yabantu basemakhaya abasebenza kwezokuvakasha komphakathi namabhizinisi ezolimo. Yena kanye noNgqongqoshe wezoLimo nokuDoba, uMhlonishwa. UFloyd Green; Usihlalo we-JSIF, uDkt.Wayne Henry nabanye ababambe iqhaza, bakhiphe amaphakethe emikhiqizo ethengelwe abazuzi ngesikhathi somcimbi obubanjelwe eGrizzly's Plantation Cove, eSt. Ann muva nje.
UNgqongqoshe uBartlett uthe: “Kuyangijabulisa futhi ukubona ukuthi phakathi kwezinhloso ze-REDI II ukuhlinzekwa kwezinga lezokwelapha i-Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) njengoba kuchazwe nguMnyango Wezokuvakasha Covid-19 Izivumelwano Zezempilo Nezokuphepha. Ama-PPE afaka izifihla-buso zobuso, izihlangu zobuso, awekho ama-thermometer atholakala ngesandla, i-hand sanitizer dispenser, ama-62% we-gel hand sanitizer. ”
UMnu. Bartlett wengeze ngokuthi: “Okudingwa yilolu hlelo lwe-REDI II ukwakha amandla ethu okuphendula ekuphazamisekeni okuzobangelwa yilolu bhubhane, futhi luphathe, luphole futhi luphumelele. Futhi yingqophamlando yalokho okuzokwenza iJamaica igqame ekugcineni. ” Ngokwengxenye yalo, iqhaza lezokuvakasha “ukudala uhlaka lokuthi umlimi asebenze ngalo ngokwenza imakethe ezokwazi ukubhekana namazinga okukhiqiza azowakhiqiza,” kuchaza yena.
Umnyango wezokuvakasha nawo udlala indima ehamba phambili ekunikezeni amabhizinisi ezokuvakasha omphakathi kanye nabalimi ukuthi bakwazi ukumelana nokususwa okubangelwe yi-COVID-19, ngokugqugquzela ukunamathela kumaphrothokholi asungulwe ezindaweni zabo nasekukhangiseni umkhiqizo wabo emkhakheni wezivakashi. I-Tourism Product Development Company kanye ne-Tourism Enhancement Fund bangabalingani ekwenzeni lo mkhakha wephrojekthi yezigidi.
UNgqongqoshe uBartlett uchaze uhlelo lwe-REDI II, oluzobandakanya okwenzeka kudala kwezokuvakasha, "njengokuthunyelwa nguNkulunkulu esikhathini esinjengalesi," wengeza ngokuthi "kuzokwakhiwa futhi kwakhiwe ezokuvakasha ezinolwazi ngezolimo."
Khonamanjalo, ephawula ngendlela eya phambili emkhakheni wezokuvakasha ngemuva kwe-COVID-19, uMnu. Bartlett uveze ukuthi uMnyango Wezokuvakasha usesimweni sokusetha kabusha. "Sisetha kabusha ezokuvakasha ukuze siziphendulele ngokwengeziwe, zifake wonke umuntu futhi sizenze zifaneleke kakhulu kubantu abajwayelekile baseJamican ezweni," echaza.
Ngokunjalo ubudlelwano phakathi kwezolimo nezokuvakasha buzothuthukiswa. Uthe u-42% wezindleko zesivakashi ngasinye bekusekudla kodwa ngenkathi ucwaningo luveza ukuthi isidingo somkhiqizo wezolimo sifinyelela ku-J $ 39.6 billion, “kulokho sinikela kuphela cishe ngo-20%, ngakho-ke kusekude phambili okumele sikwenze, kuningi okusamele kwenziwe njengoba kukhona umthamo lapha, isilinganiso sokukhiqizwa okwengeziwe nokuthi izandla ezingenzi lutho zibambe iqhaza ekusebenzeni namazwe angasebenzi. ”
LOKHO ONGAKUTHATHE KULESI SIHLOKO:
- The tourism ministry is also playing a leading role in enabling the community tourism enterprises and farmers to withstand the dislocation caused by COVID-19, by fostering adherence to established protocols on their properties and in marketing their produce to the hospitality sector.
- “What this REDI II program is seeking to do is to build our capacity to respond to the disruptions that the pandemic will cause, also to manage, to recover and to thrive.
- ” For its part, tourism's role “is to create the framework for the farmer to operate by enabling a market that will be able to respond to the production levels that he is going to produce,” he explained.
