Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Roger Clarke, says March 2015, an additional 820 serviced lots are to be handed over to Sugar Estate Barracks dwellers in Westmoreland under the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries’ Sugar Transformation Unit Barracks Relocation Project. Minister Clarke was speaking recently at Shrewsbury Falls in Westmoreland where 45 Certificates of Ownership were handed over to...

Infrastructure works, valued at approximately $501.6 million, are to be carried out on three of the island’s agro-parks over the next 12 months. These include at: Spring Plain/Ebony Park, Clarendon; New Forest/Duff House, Manchester; and Yallahs, St. Thomas where construction of storm water channels and access roads will be undertaken. Additionally, a packaging facility is to be constructed at New...

The Government’s $1 billion investment in the development of agro-parks is bearing dividends, with over 1.2 million pounds of produce reaped so far from seven parks. Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Roger Clarke made this declaration on Wednesday, June 17, at the signing ceremony for five related contracts at the Ministry’s offices at Hope Gardens in St. Andrew. The...

The St. Elizabeth branch of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), is assisting farmers to take advantage of the value-added market which is available in the parish and across the island, for agricultural products. Deputy Parish Manager, Marvin Lawrence, tells JIS News that RADA’s efforts have been receiving tremendous support from women in St. Elizabeth, who are now doing a...

The Government’s efforts to beat back praedial larceny is bearing fruit, as a result of intense campaign being carried out by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, with enforcement from the police. “Last week in St. Thomas, 26 persons were carried before the court…we are working on those people who continue to reap what they did not sow… I am...

Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Roger Clarke, says the island’s banana sector is on the road to recovery with the first shipment of the produce sent off this week to the United Kingdom, since Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Minister Clarke says although production and exports are not yet at the level of former years, the sector is back in the...

Cabinet has approved three contracts valued at approximately $254 million for the construction of storm water channels and access roads at Agro-Parks in four rural parishes. The projects, which are outlined in a Ministry Paper, tabled in the House of Representatives on June 10, will be implemented under the Agricultural Competitiveness Programme. Construction Solutions Limited will receive $175 million to...