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September 2018
 

14 September 2018

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon Audley Shaw, empties silage into machine for bagging at the handover of a silo-packer by the Ja REEACH 11 Project to the Jamaica Dairy Development Board (JDDB), at Bodles Research Station in St. Catherine on September 12. The silage packing machine will be used across Jamaica to provide dairy farmers with access to silage to ensure feed material will always be available.

Dairy farmers to benefit from silage packing machine

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 14 Sep 2018    nicola.wint   
The Jamaica Dairy Development Board (JDDB) has secured a silage packing machine and accompanying new technology that will improve access to nutritious feed material for dairy cattle nationwide. This was made possible through funding from the USAID through its Ja REEACH II project. The silo-packer machine, the first of its kind in Jamaica, will allow the JDDB to support small dairy farmers islandwide to store fodder as silage in order to continue to provide nutrition to their animals during periods when feed material is scarce or unavailable. Speaking at the handover of the machine on...


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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw.

Gov’t cannot abandon sugar industry - Shaw

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 14 Sep 2018    nicola.wint   
Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, the Hon. Audley Shaw, reiterated Government’s commitment to support the revitalization of Jamaica’s sugar industry at the Sugar Industry Authority’s (SIA’) 3rd Annual Post Crop Seminar held September 13 at the Authority’s Research Division in Mandeville, under the theme The Future of the Jamaican Sugar Industry. “Government cannot simply abandon the sugar industry and we do not intend to. We have a duty and a responsibility to create the enabling parameters to aid the industry to emerge from its current doldrums,” Shaw told stakeholders...


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Groundbreaking ceremony for the development of 84 serviced lots at Monymusk Glades

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 14 Sep 2018    nicola.wint   
From left, Hon Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Member of Parliament for Clarendon South Eastern, Hon. Rudyard Spencer; Hon Karl Samuda, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Board Chairman, National Housing Trust, Lennox Channer; and Director, SCJ Holdings Limited (SCJH), Horace Charoo, in discussion at the groundbreaking ceremony for the development of 84 serviced lots at Monymusk Glades in Clarendon on September 12.


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Handover of machine by the Ja REEACH 11 Project to the Jamaica Dairy Development Board

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 14 Sep 2018    nicola.wint   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon Audley Shaw (3rd left), sprays the first bag of silage packaged by the silo packer machine at the handover of the machine by the Ja REEACH 11 Project to the Jamaica Dairy Development Board (JDDB), held at Bodles Research Station in St. Catherine on September 12. Others from left are Karyll Aitcheson, Chief of Party, Ja REEACH 11 Project; Dr Lisa Myers-Morgan, Principal Research Director, Research and Development Division, Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries; Oliver Elliot, Project Monitoring Officer at Bodles...


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The Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce is described as Jamaica's "Business Ministry." It's mandate is to lead the development of policies that will create growth and jobs, while achieving social inclusion and consumer protection. The Ministry, working its stakeholders is primarily responsible for business policy development, monitoring and evaluation, while giving direction and oversight to a cluster of implementing departments and agencies.

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