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Chief Technical Director, Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Courtney Cole (left), converses with Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO) President, Diane Edwards (centre); and Chief Executive Officer, Agro-Investment Corporation, Sylburn Thomas, during JAMPRO’s agricultural information forum at the Terra Nova Hotel in St. Andrew on March 13.
Chief Technical Director, Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Courtney Cole (left), converses with Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO) President, Diane Edwards (centre); and Chief Executive Officer, Agro-Investment Corporation, Sylburn Thomas, during JAMPRO’s agricultural information forum at the Terra Nova Hotel in St. Andrew on March 13.

Agro-Parks Deemed Ideal for Investments

By: Ainsworth Morris, March 18, 2018
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Agro-Investment Corporation, Sylburn Thomas, is urging Jamaicans to exploit the investment opportunities now available at the Government’s agro-parks islandwide. “Our view is that you...
Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. J.C. Hutchinson, makes his address at the launch of the H&L Agro’s Duwest soluble crop nutrition line, at the Junction Guesthouse Auditorium in St. Elizabeth on Wednesday, March 14.

Agriculture Ministry Targets Self-Sufficiency in Irish Potato This Year

By: Claudia Gardner, March 16, 2018
Chief Technical Director, Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Courtney Cole, addresses the Agricultural Information Forum hosted by JAMPRO at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in St. Andrew on March 13.

Farmers Encouraged to Engage in Climate Change Mitigation Plans

By: Ainsworth Morris, March 15, 2018

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Apiculture Extension Officer for St. Elizabeth and Westmoreland, Attoy Williams, inspects a frame of bees during a training session in Beeston Spring, Westmoreland, recently.
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Beekeeping Big Business in the West

Apiculture is big business for 49-year-old Roan Saunders of Beeston Spring in Westmoreland. He started out in the industry eight years ago with one colony of feral (wild) bees, which...
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By: Claudia Gardner, March 12, 2018