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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (left), greets Co-Chairperson of The Bahamas National Commission on Marijuana (BNCM), Quinn McCartney, during a courtesy call at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on Thursday, October 10, 2019. Mr. McCartney and team met with the minister to garner information on Jamaica’s cannabis industry.

The Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries is moving apace to implement measures to address the potential threat of the Tropical Race (TR) 4 disease, which affects bananas and plantains. Though the disease is not present in Jamaica, the Ministry, through the Plant Quarantine and Produce Inspection Branch and The Banana Board, remains vigilantContinue reading “Agriculture Ministry moves to implement measures to address the potential threat of Tropical Race 4”

Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw has ordered the full resumption of the activities under the Frosty Pod Rot management project. The Minister made the announcement at a press conference at his Ministry’s Hope Gardens offices on October 9. He said the decision to resume the project was made after it wasContinue reading “Activities under the Frosty Pod Rot management project resume”

Agriculture Minister Says Major Investments Coming

A total of 200 coffee farmers from communities in the Blue Mountain areas of St. Andrew are set to benefit from the distribution of 50,000 coffee seedlings with the establishment of the Blue Mountain coffee nursery. This is being made possible under the Japanese Government’s Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Project and will impactContinue reading “Two hundred farmers set to receive 50,000 coffee seedlings”

Deputy Chairman of the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA), John Minott (left), presents farmer Clifford Jonas of Red Light, Irish Town with a coffee seedling at a handover ceremony of the seedlings to farmers, at Ueshima Coffee Company Limited in Rose Hill, Woodford, St. Andrew on October 4.

Chief Planning Analyst in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Karl Hyatt (second left) looks on as Japanese Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Hiromasa Yamazaki (right), makes a point at a handover ceremony of coffee seedlings to farmers, at Ueshima Coffee Company Limited in Rose Hill, Woodford, St. Andrew on October 4. OthersContinue reading “Handover ceremony of coffee seedlings to farmers”

Chief Planning Analyst in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Karl Hyatt (left) participates in the ribbon cutting ceremony to symbolically present coffee seedlings to farmers, at Ueshima Coffee Company Limited in Rose Hill, Woodford, St. Andrew on October 4. Others from second left are Acting Director General of the Jamaica Agricultural CommoditiesContinue reading “Ribbon cutting ceremony to symbolically present coffee seedlings to farmers”

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (left), in discussion with (from left) Director, Harvard Global Health Catalyst, Professor Wilfred Ngwa; Medical Professor Dr. the Hon. Julius Garvey; and Research Fellow, Harvard Medical, Sayeda Yasmin-Karim, during a courtesy call at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on Tuesday, October 1, 2019. The HarvardContinue reading “Minister Shaw meets with Harvard team”

Hon Floyd Green (2nd left), Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, along with Nigel Myrie (left), Chairman, and Peter Thompson, Chief Executive Officer, both of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority, listen keenly to Everton Parkes of the Jamaica Dairy Development Board during a tour of its booth on OctoberContinue reading “Opening ceremony of the 10th GFRAS Annual Meeting”