FARMERS in Walkerswood, St Ann, are expecting to lose millions in the coming weeks as the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) hits markets for their produce.

Measures to arrest the infectious disease outbreak have forced the Government to close the country’s borders to incoming passengers, effectively crippling the group’s main market — hotels.

Fifteen-year veteran and president of the United Greenhouse Growers Association Wighan Gordon did not see this crisis coming — a virus which does not affect crops but which now threatens the agricultural sector.

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