Hon Audley Shaw (centre), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, discusses the importance of the local value chain development to Jamaica’s economy with (from left) Ricardo Nuncio, Managing Director of Red Stripe, and Noel daCosta, Chairman, Desnoes & Geddes Foundation, at Mona Visitors’ Lodge in St. Andrew on November 21, 2018. The occasion was Red Stripe’s Knowledge Forum, which was organised under the theme ‘Beyond Talk: The Commercialization of the Cassava Value Chain.
Agri minister calls for increased use of local ingredients in manufacturing
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon Audley Shaw, is calling on manufacturers to include more local ingredients in the manufacturing of their products. He was speaking at a Knowledge Forum organised by Red Stripe under the theme ‘Beyond Talk: The Commercialization of the Cassava Value ‘, held at the Mona Visitors’ Lodge, UWI, Mona, on November 21, 2018. “Brew ideas like Red Stripe,” Minister Shaw stated as he commended the company on its innovation and enterprise in the use of cassava in the brewing of its beer. “Our country’s prospects for developing agriculture and...
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