The Food Storage and Prevention of Infestation Division (FSPID) of the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce continues to mitigate rodent infestation in food/feed stores, post offices, prisons and hospitals....

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is seeking to make the process of starting an agricultural enterprise easier, with the creation of the Agro Investment Corporation. Started in October 2009,...

The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) has embarked on a series of sensitisation meetings across the island, to heighten farmers' awareness about its Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI) programme, and...

Jamaican farmers suffer losses of up to $5 billion per annum due to praedial larceny, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dr. Christopher Tufton, has stated. Dr. Tufton said the crime...

The Kingston and St. Andrew Association of Branch Societies/Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) will stage its annual Agricultural and Industrial Show,'Agrofest', on Saturday May 22, at the Jamaica College grounds, Old...

The Ministries of Water and Housing and Agriculture and Fisheries are currently discussing a "workable model" for the development of housing in rural Jamaica, Minister of Water and Housing, Hon....

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Donovan Stanberry, has called on players in the agriculture sector to invest in insurance coverage as a critical part of doing...

The technical capabilities of a number of the island's fisheries officers have been significantly enhanced, by their participation in a five-week extension training course at the Ministry of Agriculture and...

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) will this year partner with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries on a set of initiatives to support the Ministry's focus...

St. Catherine High School has successfully defended its National Secondary Schools' Food and Nutrition Quiz title, topping six other schools to cop the national trophy and cash prize of $50,000,...

Jamaica has proposed a special project to the Haitian administration, which aims to assist in resuscitating that nation's agricultural sector from the effects of the 7.0 earthquake, which devastated that...