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Farmers and Alpart Community Council representatives display vouchers presented by Jiuquan Iron and Steel Company (JISCO)/Alpart through its Agricultural Stimulus Programme. The presentations were made at the Alpart Sports Club in Nain, recently.
Farmers and Alpart Community Council representatives display vouchers presented by Jiuquan Iron and Steel Company (JISCO)/Alpart through its Agricultural Stimulus Programme. The presentations were made at the Alpart Sports Club in Nain, recently.

JISCO/Alpart Assists 540 St. Elizabeth Farmers

A total of 540 farmers in the Jiuquan Iron and Steel Company (JISCO)/Alpart operating areas of St. Elizabeth have benefited from vouchers valued at $2.7 million to purchase farm inputs. The support was provided under the company’s Agricultural Stimulus Programme....
Chief Technical Director for Special Projects in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Courtney Cole (left), addresses the opening session of the three-day World Trade Organization (WTO) Regional Workshop on ‘Fisheries Subsidies for Caribbean Countries’, at the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel in New Kingston, on Tuesday (April 9). Listening keenly WTO Rules Division Counsellor, John Finn, and Legal/Economic Affairs Officer, Taal Sainabou.
Chief Technical Director for Special Projects in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Courtney Cole (left), addresses the opening session of the three-day World Trade Organization (WTO) Regional Workshop on ‘Fisheries Subsidies for Caribbean Countries’, at the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel in New Kingston, on Tuesday (April 9). Listening keenly WTO Rules Division Counsellor, John Finn, and Legal/Economic Affairs Officer, Taal Sainabou.

Countries Participate in Fisheries Workshop
National Technical, Vocational, Education and Training (TVET) Director in the Education, Youth and Information Ministry, Denworth Finnikin.
National Technical, Vocational, Education and Training (TVET) Director in the Education, Youth and Information Ministry, Denworth Finnikin.

More Students Being Exposed to Agriculture in Schools
Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), shares a light moment with (from left) Jamaica 4-H Clubs Executive Director, Dr. Ronald Blake, and Chairman, Hidran McKulskie, during the organisation’s National Achievement Expo at the Denbigh Agricultural Showground in May Pen, Clarendon, on April 5.
Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), shares a light moment with (from left) Jamaica 4-H Clubs Executive Director, Dr. Ronald Blake, and Chairman, Hidran McKulskie, during the organisation’s National Achievement Expo at the Denbigh Agricultural Showground in May Pen, Clarendon, on April 5.

Cabinet Receives Agriculture Ministry Submission Regarding AMC Complex
Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw (second right), listens to a point being made by Certified Management Consultant, Dr. Nsombi Jaja (left), during a management consulting standard ‘train the trainers’ workshop at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Tuesday (April 2). Also pictured (from second left) are Senior Consultant in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, and ISO 9001:2015 Ambassador, Reginald Budhan; and workshop facilitator, Nick Warn.
Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw (second right), listens to a point being made by Certified Management Consultant, Dr. Nsombi Jaja (left), during a management consulting standard ‘train the trainers’ workshop at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Tuesday (April 2). Also pictured (from second left) are Senior Consultant in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, and ISO 9001:2015 Ambassador, Reginald Budhan; and workshop facilitator, Nick Warn.

Gov’t Targeting Standards-Driven Transformation for Jamaica

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Director of Fisheries in the Fisheries Division of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, André Kong (left), peruses a document with Chief Technical Director for Special Projects in the Ministry, Courtney Cole, at the Jamaica Fishermen Co-operative Union Limited annual general meeting, held at The Knutsford Court Hotel on April 2. Mr. Cole read the Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw’s speech at the event.
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New Fisheries Act to Come Into Force Soon

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw, says the new Fisheries Act has been promulgated and will come into force soon. He explains that this new law will not only facilitate modern fisheries management and development strategies, and significantly increase the maximum fines for breaches of the law, but will also transform the Fisheries Division into the...
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Illegal Fishing Vessels Forfeited

Jamaica sent a clear message on Friday, March 22, 2019 to illegal fishers poaching in Jamaica’s fishing territory with the forfeiture of two fishing vessels and the criminal conviction of Dominican Republic fishermen, Limbert Valdemura and Manuel Martinez, in the Corporate Area Criminal Court. Valdemura and Martinez are the captains of the two vessels manned by a 54-member crew of...
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Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. J.C. Hutchinson (right), and Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange (centre), converse with Hardware and Lumber Limited’s Marketing and Customer Experience Officer, Andrea Green-Browne, during an ‘Economic Opportunities Workshop’ Grant Handover Ceremony in Accompong, St. Elizabeth, on March 22.
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Accompong Targeted for Hemp Pilot

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. J.C. Hutchinson, says there are plans for a hemp cultivation pilot project in the Maroon community of Accompong, St Elizabeth. Mr. Hutchinson indicated that the Ministry is looking to cultivate 50 acres of the plant for use as raw material in a variety of commercial products, including...
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Chief Executive Officer, Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), Peter Thompson, in discussion with Senior Director, Adaptation, Climate Change Division, Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Le-Anne Roper, during the National Conference on ‘Accelerating the Application of Climate-smart Agriculture Innovations and/or Technologies’, at the Spanish Court Hotel in New Kingston, on March 25.
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Farmers to Learn about Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices

Some 5,000 farmers from the parishes of St. Thomas, St. Mary and Portland are to benefit from a €400,000 (J$5.6-million) project, aimed at increasing their capacity to implement climate-smart agricultural practices. Dubbed, ‘Accelerating the Uptake of Climate-smart Agriculture in Jamaica’, the project is to strengthen the resilience to climate extremes and improve agricultural productivity and incomes of smallholder farmers in...
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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), purchases produce from a farmer during a tour of stalls at the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) open day, staged at Brooks Park in the parish on March 22.
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More Local Produce for School-Feeding Programme

The Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries is working with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, and the Ministry of Health to get more local produce into the national school-feeding programme. “We are putting together a… programme where we will say to farmers, ‘produce and we will feed the children from what we grow’, which is more nutritious...
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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (left), listens keenly as Farm Operations Manager at Dencon Foods and Farm in Clarendon, Nicholas Duke (stooping), explains methods of onion production at the company, during a tour of the farm on March 21. Also on the tour (from second left) are Chief Executive Officer of the company, Hurshel Cyrus; Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Dermon Spence, and Chairman of Dencon, Clive Blackwood.
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Local Produce in School-Feeding Programme will Improve Children’s Health – Shaw

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw, says formalising a national school-feeding programme using local produce, will ensure improved health for children and a stable income for farmers. The Minister, who was addressing stakeholders in the agricultural sector at Dencon Foods and Farm in Spring Plain, Clarendon, on March 21, said the plan, which will be implemented...
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Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green (right), engages with President, Small Business Association of Jamaica, Hugh Johnson (left); and Chairperson, 2019 Caribbean MSME Conference, Dr. Blossom O’Meally-Nelson at the launch of the event on Wednesday (March 20), at the Ministry
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Gov’t Committed to Making Funds Available for MSMEs – Green

Minister of State for Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green, has reiterated the Government’s commitment to making more funds available for the growth and development of the micro, small and medium-sized enterprise (MSME) sector. “We do know the challenges that our small businesses face in accessing the formal banking sector, and as such, one of the first things...
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