Public invited to participate in July’s upcoming Mango Festival
GIS - Wednesday, June 13th, 2012 at 7:37 AM
The Department of Agriculture in collaboration with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Labour invite the public to the third annual Mango Array and Tropical Fruit Festival slated for Friday, July 13, 2012 at the Noel Lloyd Positive Action Movement Park.
The festival will promote mango awareness in fun activities for all, a display of all the locals fruits available at this time of the year, a mango eating competition for children, quizzes, games, face painting, bobbing for mangoes, training on fruit tree production on the nutritional value, uses, production and crop husbandry and management, along with a propagation session which includes air layering, budding, and grafting.
The festival is also open to vendors who can sell assorted fruit trees, ornamentals, arts and crafts, food and fresh produce.
Persons interested in participating in the various competitions and being a vendor in the festival are asked to contact Mrs. Arona Fahie-Forbes at the Department of Agriculture at 495-2110 or 468-9212.
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