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...

A total of $8.3 million has already been disbursed to some 32 farmers in St. Ann to carry on crop production, under the Financial Access to Responsible Members (FARM) programme....

The Ministry of Agriculture, today (January 26), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the World Bank, to evaluate the feasibility of market-based weather risk management practices for the coffee...

With the Jamaica 4-H Movement joining in the show of generosity to the people of Haiti, its western Jamaica wing is supporting the national effort with a regional collection drive...

Harvesting operations have resumed at the Frome Sugar Factory in Westmoreland, following the suspension of reaping earlier this month because of bad weather conditions. Persistent rainfall during the December to...

Director General of the Coffee Industry Board (CIB), Christopher Gentles, has called on key players in the coffee sector to embark on new ways to put the industry on a...

Coffee farmers who attended a meeting of representatives of the co-operatives and personnel from the Coffee Industry Board (CIB), have expressed confidence in the industry's viability. "What we need to...

Bauxite/alumina producer, Alpart, has granted persons in Manchester funds totalling over $600,000 to expand micro enterprise projects. At a handing over ceremony at their Knockpatrick facility on Friday (January 15),...

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Dr. Christopher Tufton, officially opened the Ministry's Pest Risk Analysis (PRA) Unit, following a brief ceremony in the conference room of the Veterinary Services...