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MANDEVILLE – Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dr. Christopher Tufton, is urging local producers to seize opportunities created by the global food shortages, by investing in increased output. Speaking at a Jamaica Exporters Association (JEA)/Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) sponsored training and capacity building project for farmers, at Brooks Park, Mandeville, Wednesday (March 30), he noted that with the recent...

KINGSTON — A total of $100 million is to be spent on the implementation of the recommendations of the Sugar Industry Commission of Enquiry, which have been approved by Cabinet. The process will be spearheaded by the Sugar Transformation Unit in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, and is expected to be undertaken from 2011 to 2014, with funding from...

PORT ANTONIO – Plans are progressing smoothly for the 25th staging of the annual St. Mary Agri Expo, to be held at the St. Mary Sports Club in Annotto Bay, on Easter Monday, April 25. The event, which is being organised by the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), will be held under the theme: ‘Grow what we eat - Eat what...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Rural Agricultural Development Authority, RADA,  is to host a targeted farmers’ market in Negril, Westmoreland at the Norman Manley Sea Park (near round about) this Wednesday, March 30, 2011, from 6a.m. to 6p.m.  This, as it seeks to take-off the excess in several primary crops which still exists. The market will cater...

OCHO RIOS – St. Ann farmers are lauding the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) Root Crop Project, and the input of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) in helping them to improve the quality of crop production.“ This project involves a number of root crops, mainly yam, coco, sweet potato, Irish potato and ginger,” Manager for RADA’s St. Ann branch,...

PORT ANTONIO – Scores of persons attended the second Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) - sponsored farmers market in Portland, at the Folly Estate, Port Antonio, on Friday March 18. A total of 45 farmers from Portland, St. Ann, St. Elizabeth and St. Mary participated, with carrots, cabbage and Irish potatoes accounting for a greater level of sale than other...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries & the Rural Agricultural Development Authority, RADA, is to stage another round of farmers' market on Friday, April 1, 2011 from 6a.m. - 6p.m. with a return of the market at the Ministry of Agriculture’s football field. The St. Andrew market was held at a new venue last week but is being relocated to...

PORT ANTONIO – The successful staging of the farmers' markets in St. Mary by the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), continued with the staging of another such event at the Trinity Boxing Plant in Port Maria, on Friday, March 18. The market, which began at 6:30 a.m., had the participation of 25 farmers from St. Mary and St. Ann, and...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is reporting success in reducing the glut currently plaguing the island's farmers through the recent staging of six Farmers' Markets in Portmore, Kingston, Port Maria, Mandeville, Portland and Montego Bay. Data from the Rural Agricultural Development Authority, (RADA) shows that 318,150 pounds of produce were sold resulting in earnings in excess of $17m, approximately...

LONDON – The potential for investment in Tourism and Agriculture was one of the focuses of the third annual Jamaica/United Kingdom (UK) Investment Forum, which was held in London on March 17. This year the Forum looked at a number of the Government’s priority areas for international investment, including Tourism, Agriculture and Agro-processing, Information and Communications Technology (ICT), the International...

KINGSTON – Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Project, Hon. Daryl Vaz, has informed that Cabinet has approved the recommendations of the Sugar Industry Commission of Enquiry. The Commission looked into and reported on the relevance of the current institutional, regulatory and pricing arrangements in the sugar industry. Speaking on March 16 post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House,...

Cabinet has approved the award of a contract to Jamaica Wells and Services Company to develop a production well that will serve 376 farmers on 400 hectares of land in Manchester. The well will be constructed at the New Forest/Duff House Irrigation System in St. Elizabeth under the National Irrigation Development Programme for a value of $32,522,432.89. Minister with responsibility...