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Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Karl Samuda (right), listens as Technical Representative for Canadian entity Lambert Peat Moss Inc., Ramon Alvarado (left), provides details on a bag of plant seeds produced by the company, which was on display during a stakeholder seminar at Caymanas Golf and Country Club in St. Catherine on Tuesday, September 20. The seminar was jointly staged by Lambert Peat and Jamaica Floral Products Limited/Evergrow Garden Centre under the theme ‘High Quality Growing Media at the Root of High Quality Seedling Growth and Crop Production’. Also listening (from 2nd left) are Lambert Peat’s International Sales Manager, Richard De Quesada; and Jamaica Floral Products Limited/Evergrow Garden Centre General Manager, Burrell Scarlett.
Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Karl Samuda (right), listens as Technical Representative for Canadian entity Lambert Peat Moss Inc., Ramon Alvarado (left), provides details on a bag of plant seeds produced by the company, which was on display during a stakeholder seminar at Caymanas Golf and Country Club in St. Catherine on Tuesday, September 20. The seminar was jointly staged by Lambert Peat and Jamaica Floral Products Limited/Evergrow Garden Centre under the theme ‘High Quality Growing Media at the Root of High Quality Seedling Growth and Crop Production’. Also listening (from 2nd left) are Lambert Peat’s International Sales Manager, Richard De Quesada; and Jamaica Floral Products Limited/Evergrow Garden Centre General Manager, Burrell Scarlett.

Agriculture Minister wants more Youth Involved in Sector

By: Douglas McIntosh, September 21, 2016
The Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda, continues to push for more young people to get involved in the agriculture sector. “We have to get (more)...
Minister without Portfolio in the Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Ministry, Hon. J.C. Hutchinson (left), in discussion with Canadian High Commissioner to Jamaica, His Excellency Sylvain Fabi, on the final of a two-day Climate-Smart Agriculture symposium, at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston, on September 14.

Hutchinson to Advocate Removal of GCT on Imported Farm Supplies

By: Chad Bryan , September 15, 2016
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda (left) exchanges greetings with Chief of Mission, United States Agency for International Development Agency (USAID) Jamaica, Maura Barry Boyle (2nd right), just before the start of the opening ceremony for the climate smart agriculture symposium at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston today (September 13). Others (from second left) are Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Reginald Budhan; and Deputy Chief of Mission at the United States Embassy in Kingston, Eric Khant.The two-day symposium, which is being organised by the USAID-funded Jamaica Rural Economy and Ecosystems Adapting to Climate cHange II (Ja REEACH II) project in collaboration with the Ministry, is being held under the theme ‘Growing Agriculture and Incomes in the Face of Climate Change’.

Agro Parks to be Expanded

By: Chris Patterson, September 14, 2016

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