Over 260 Jamaicans departed for Canada and the United States, today (April 15) to join the Ministry of Labour and Social Security's (MLSS) Overseas Employment Programme, as farm workers. About...

The Coffee Industry Board (CIB), is recruiting some 3,000 new coffee farmers, as the Government moves to resuscitate the production of non-Blue Mountain Coffee. At a meeting held with farmers...

Minister of Agriculture Dr. Christopher Tufton, has said that greater emphasis is now being placed on marketing in the agricultural sector, with the establishment of a marketing unit in the...

It is no surprise that 19-year-old St. Elizabeth 4-H Clubbite, Whitney Smith, is an admirer of parishioner, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Dr. Christopher Tufton. She credits the Minister with the...

Thirty-five 4-H Clubs in St. Mary participated in the Annual St. Mary 4-H Achievement Day activities, held at the Oracabessa High School, on April 7. The function, which featured a...

Minister of Agriculture Dr. Christopher Tufton, has said that the Government would be accelerating the Youth in Agriculture Programme this year, including providing young people with land for farming and...

Some $5.4 million has been set aside in the 2009/2010 budget, for monitoring and consultancy related to a Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) loan to the Jamaican Government, to fund a...

Councillors in the Trelawny Parish Council, will give up 5% percent of their salary to a needy cause within the parish, in keeping with Prime Minister Bruce Golding's call for...

The Government is spending approximately $724 million on the Banana Support Project this fiscal year, as outlined in the 2009/10 Estimates of Expenditure, currently before the House of Representatives. The...

The Hurricane Gustav Agricultural Rehabilitation Project has received a boost of approximately $260 million in the 2009/10 Estimates of Expenditure, currently before the House of Representatives. The project aims at...

Further strengthening of the support system for farmers and other key stakeholders in the agricultural industry is expected during 2009/10, as $9 million has been allocated to the Agricultural Support...