A total of 85 community-based Production and Marketing Organisations (PMOs) have been registered by the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), which will enable them to access funding and other support...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has launched a new programme aimed at putting idle arable lands back into production. The programme dubbed Arable Lands Irrigated and Growing for the...

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dr. Christopher Tufton, has said that it is imperative that stakeholders in the fishing industry understand the rationale for the institution of laws to curb...

Senator Norman Grant has criticized, what he describes as, the "very limited youth involvement" in the regional agricultural sector. "Surveys among farmers' organizations across the region indicate that the average...

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon Christopher Tufton, has endorsed the signing of four new contracts, Wednesday (February 3), under the European Union's (EU) Banana Support Programme (EUBSP), which aim...

The North Clarendon Ginger Resuscitation Project was, on Wednesday (January 27) launched in Top Alston, in North West Clarendon. The project, one of approximately 50 community-based projects that received funding...

The Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) Clarendon Parish Office held its first Farmers Awards Ceremony on Thursday (Jan. 28) at the Juici Patties Complex, at Clarendon Park, in Clarendon. Twenty-four...

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Christopher Tufton, said that the Ministry will be focusing efforts on helping farmers with water management this year, given the frequency of droughts across...

The St. Mary 4-H Clubs Parish Advisory Council and Leaders' Association will be staging the annual Parish Achievement Day celebration at the Oracabessa High School, St. Mary, on Tuesday (March...

A year and a half after starting a Cassava Production Project at the Tamarind Farm Correctional Centre, the Department of Correctional Services is planning to increase the current acreage under...

Preliminary figures from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries have shown that the agricultural sector continued expanding in the last quarter of 2009, ending the period with an overall 23.1...