Coffee production in Jamaica hybrid varieties of caturra, geisha, etc. The coffee that is grown in the Blue Mountains region, known as the Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, is said to be of very high quality and is mostly exported. Coffee is grown at an elevation of , with a rainfall incidence varying from to more than . Farming methods are specifically oriented towards a high rate of production with optimum acidity. The Ministry of Agriculture and its subordinate office, the Coffee Industry Board, are responsible for all activities of the coffee sector. The Coffee Industry Board set up the Coffee Industry Development Company (CIDCO)
The Blue Mountain Gazette The Blue Mountain Gazette The Blue Mountain Gazette was a newspaper launched in Katoomba in January 1903. In January 1903 "The Blue Mountain Gazette" was launched by E. D. Wilson, who set up his business on Main Street, Katoomba. Twelve months later, in January 1904, Wilson sold his interest in the paper to Robert Gornall. Gornall sold to John Knight of "The Mountaineer" in December 1904 and transferred his printing plant "to a prosperous and rapidly rising mining and agricultural town in the north, where there is no newspaper". The "Gazette", which had circulated throughout the Blue Mountains and adjoining