The Ministry of Agriculture is undertaking a $15 million beekeeping census to assess the true state of the industry and to properly plan for its development. Director at the Ministry's...

Minister of Agriculture, Roger Clarke has said that the Ministry was taking the necessary precautions to ensure that beef imported was free of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or mad...

Approximately 15,000 of 24,000 farmers in Clarendon have already been registered under the Rural Agricultural Development Authority's (RADA) Agricultural Business Information Systems (ABIS) Programme. Percival Shaw, Parish Manager for RADA,...

The Apiculture Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture will be embarking on a $3.5 million Beekeeping Apprenticeship Programme geared at providing employment opportunities for young men and women, who reside...

The small hive beetle, which has been plaguing apiaries in Kingston and St. Andrew, has been brought under control, Reginald Peddy, Chief Apiculture Officer at Bodles Research Station in Old...

The Trelawny Yam Festival, this year, is expected to be the best ever, attracting thousands of Jamaicans and tourists to the parish. The event, being organized by the Southern Trelawny...

President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), Senator Norman Grant yesterday (February 25) moved a resolution in the Upper House seeking to gain the consent of the government to retain...

The eighteenth staging of the St. Mary Agri Expo will be held at the James Bond Beach in Oracabessa from March 27-28. This year's show will be held under the...

The Ministry of Agriculture will be spending $220 million as part of its effort to revitalise agricultural production, following the devastation caused by Hurricane Ivan last year September. Giving the...

The Springfield Growers Association Limited was officially launched on January 17, with capital support of $15.6 million from the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) and the Agriculture Support Services Project...

The Office of the National Reconstruction (ONR) is helping Jamaican farmers, who suffered devastating losses during Hurricane Ivan, to sow seeds of growth, by providing them with the necessary tools...