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Agriculture, Labour and Social Security Minister, Hon. Derrick Kellier (right), emphasizes a point during the Ministry’s Quarantine Division’s exporters’ forum, held at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, New Kingston, on Tuesday (June 2). The forum formed part of week-long activities marking Plant Quarantine Week 2015, from May 30 to June 5, under the theme: ‘Plant Quarantine: Facilitating Trade...Securing Jamaica’s Agriculture’. Listening keenly are: Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Donovan Stanberry (left), and Regional Administrative Specialist, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Maydene Campbell.
Agriculture, Labour and Social Security Minister, Hon. Derrick Kellier (right), emphasizes a point during the Ministry’s Quarantine Division’s exporters’ forum, held at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, New Kingston, on Tuesday (June 2). The forum formed part of week-long activities marking Plant Quarantine Week 2015, from May 30 to June 5, under the theme: ‘Plant Quarantine: Facilitating Trade...Securing Jamaica’s Agriculture’. Listening keenly are: Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Donovan Stanberry (left), and Regional Administrative Specialist, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Maydene Campbell.

Submission to be Made to the USDA for Mango Export

By: Douglas McIntosh, June 3, 2015
The Ministry of Agriculture has developed an action plan for submission to the United States Department of Agriculture/Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) for consideration and approval for Jamaican...
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Lloyd B. Smith, addresses the opening ceremony for the 35th annual conference of the Insurance Association of the Caribbean, held on May 31, at the Hyatt Hotel in Montego Bay, St. James.

Caribbean Insurers Urged to Develop Products for Agriculture, Tourism

By: Marlon Tingling, June 2, 2015
One of the greenhouses on the site of the Greenhouse Cluster and Water Harvesting Project, in Rose Hill, Manchester. Under the project, the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), and the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI), are collaborating to impart greenhouse technologies to farmers in Manchester, St. Elizabeth and St. Ann, through a $192 million partnership.

Farmers to Benefit from Major Greenhouse Project

By: Garfield L. Angus, June 2, 2015

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