Farmers suffer at hands of thieves

Date: Thu 30-Sep-1993
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Publication: Daily Nation


THREE PLANTATIONS and two farmers are the latest victims of the crop thieves plaguing local agriculture.

According to the police, carrots valued at $200 were stolen from Buttals Plantation, St. George; while Richard Armstrong, of Edgecumbe Plantation, St. Philip, reported that plantains valued at $500 had been stolen from the plantation.

Meanwhile, Maureen Reid, of Hopewell, Christ Church, lost 100 chickens valued at $900 to thieves on September 26. One hundred and forty-five dollars in potatoes were stolen from Society Plantation and Michael Hutchinson, of Hill View, St. Philip, reported $825 worth of cabbage stolen from his lands.

Police are investigating the incidences.