MONTEGO BAY — The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries will be playing a more direct role in the staging of agricultural shows across the island, with a minimum $500,000 in...

MONTEGO BAY — Preliminary figures show, more than 20 per cent increase in domestic crop production for the first quarter of 2011, over the similar period last year. Minister of...

MANDEVILLE — As part of ongoing efforts to cushion the effects of the temporary cessation in bauxite mining, mining company Alpart, and its community council is providing $3 million in...

KINGSTON — Minister of Agriculture and  Fisheries, Hon. Dr. Christopher Tufton will host an Arable Lands Irrigating and Growing for the Nation (ALIGN) business meeting on April 27,  at the...

MANDEVILLE — Denbigh High School student, Michael Lewis and Corinaldi Avenue Primary School student, Siegel Allen are the 2011 Jamaica 4-H Clubs Boy and Girl of the Year. The two...

KINGSTON — To achieve an effective transition to a sustainable sugar cane industry, the Government has allocated just over $2 billion for the Sugar Transformation Project in the 2011/12 Estimates...

KINGSTON — The Competitive Coffee Enterprises Programme is to be further enhanced with an allocation of $49 million in the 2011/12 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives....

KINGSTON — A sum of $148 million has been allocated in the 2011/12 Estimates of Expenditure, currently before the House of Representatives, to continue work on the Ministry of Agriculture...

PORT ANTONIO — Scores of persons participated in the Portland leg of the Ministry of Agriculture/European Union (EU) sponsored “Eat Jamaican” campaign road show, in Port Antonio, on Friday April...

MONTEGO BAY — Western Jamaica in for an agricultural treat come Easter Monday, April 25, with the staging of the Montpelier Agricultural and Industrial Show, on the Montpelier Show grounds...

KINGSTON — Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon Dr. Christopher Tufton, has called on the private sector to support the World Bank/Inter-American Bank-funded parametric insurance scheme. Dr. Tufton, who was...