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Vet Services Division hosts Chinese audit delegation

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 27 Feb 2018    nicola.wint   
Dr. Osbil Watson (3rd left), Chief Veterinary Officer, and Avery Smikle, Acting Director of Fisheries, both from the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries; and Esmond Reid (3rd right), Acting Undersecretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, pose with Ning Wang(4th right), Director of Food Safety Division 4, Import and Export Food Safety Bureau, Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine in China, and other members of an audit team from China at a meeting held at the Ministry’s Veterinary Services Division offices in St. Andrew on...


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Identifier and Entomologist at the Plant Quarantine Produce Inspection Branch, Karen Christie (right), sharing information with cocoa farmers in Woodside, St Mary during the Ministry’of Agriculture’s recent Frosty Pod Rot sensitization session in that community..

Frosty Pod Rot Seminars Well Attended by Cocoa Farmers

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 26 Feb 2018    nicola.wint   
Facilitators of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries’ Frosty Pod Rot sensitisation sessions targeting cocoa farmers in St. Mary say the forums have been well supported by the beneficiaries. Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) Representative in Jamaica, Dr. Elizabeth Johnson, told JIS News that farmers in Bellfield, Brainard, Lewisburgh, Anglican, Marlborough, and Woodside, where sessions were held, were very receptive of the engagements. “The farmers are interested (and) want to learn more. They are asking questions, which is a good sign of...


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Closure of the Sugar Area Development Programme/Sugar Transformation Project

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 26 Feb 2018    nicola.wint   
The Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture & Fisheries is advising the public that the SUGAR AREA DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME/SUGAR TRANSFORMATION PROGRAMME funded by THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION and THE GOVERNMENT OF JAMAICA will officially close on Friday, March 30, 2018. Any person or entity having outstanding business with this project should make contact with the Project Manager by using the contact details indicated below, by Wednesday, February 28, 2018 to settle all outstanding matters. Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture & Fisheries Hope Gardens Kingston 6 Tel: 977-1874...


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Principal Director, Planning and Policy, Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Shaun Baugh, addresses the opening session of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) national consultation to discuss priorities for Jamaica’s food and nutrition security and rural development held at The Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston on February 20.

Gov’t Working with FAO to Develop Insurance Scheme for Farmers

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 23 Feb 2018    nicola.wint   
The Government of Jamaica is working with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to develop an insurance scheme for crop and livestock farmers. Principal Director, Planning and Policy, Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Shaun Baugh, said that there have been models in the past that have worked, but they were not sustainable. “We are now in a very serious way, looking at all the past initiatives and putting them together to make a specific insurance scheme that our farmers will buy into and will benefit the country,” he said. Mr. Baugh was...


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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), Hon. Karl Samuda (centre), along with (l-r) General Manager, Argyle Street Management Limited, Liao Hui Heng; General Manager, Guangzhou Panyu Huanan Group Energy Sources Corporation Limited, Kuang Zhi Yuan; Deputy General Manager, China National Complete Plant Import and Export Group Corporation Limited & Chairman, China National Complete Plant International Sugar Industry Corporation Limited, Han Hong; Business Development Associate, Huazhong Group (Guangdong) Corporation Limited, Xie Zi Dan; Permanent Secretary, MICAF, Donovan Stanberry; and Chief Executive Officer, Pan Caribbean Sugar Company, Madam Liu Chao Yu, at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices, on Tuesday, February 20, 2018. The visiting delegation met with Minister Samuda to provide an update on activities at the Monymusk and Frome Sugar factories and to discuss the way forward for the industry.

Govt. committed to Jamaica’s sugar industry- Samuda

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 22 Feb 2018    nicola.wint   
Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Karl Samuda has reiterated that the Government through the Ministry is committed to the growth and development of the sugar industry in Jamaica. The Minister noted that despite the many challenges that the industry is facing, if properly managed, it is sustainable. Minister Samuda was speaking at a meeting with representatives of COMPLANT/Pan Caribbean Sugar Co. Ltd., at his New Kingston offices on February 20, 2018. The meeting was convened to discuss issues relating to the latest developments at the Monymusk Sugar Factory in...


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AgroBuzz Programme

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 22 Feb 2018    nicola.wint   
MICAF hosts inaugural 'Citrus Day' - February 28, 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKwbzK0IzGY&feature=youtu.be&a= Veterinary Services laboratory receives accreditation - February 21, 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URXuQtylaC0&feature=youtu.be&a= National Farm Roads Improvement Programme - February 7, 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pzdUL5S84g&feature=youtu.be&a=


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Minister Samuda samples pudding at the Hague Agriculture and Industrial Show

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 21 Feb 2018    nicola.wint   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon Karl Samuda, samples pudding at the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) booth at the Hague Agriculture and Industrial Show on February 14. Others, from left, are Courtney Taylor, RADA Agricultural Parish Manager in Trelawny; Michael Stern, chairman, RADA; Glendon Harris (partially hidden), vice-president of the Jamaica Agricultural Society; and RADA Home Economics and Social Services Officer for Trelawny, Lilieth James.


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Minister Samuda views demonstration plot at Hague Showground

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 21 Feb 2018    nicola.wint   
Hon Karl Samuda (left) Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, views demonstration plot at Hague Showground along with Glendon Harris (2nd left), vice-president of the Jamaica Agricultural Society, and representatives of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority during a tour of the Hague Agriculture and Industrial Show on February 14.


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JDDB hands over fertilizers to dairy farmers

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 19 Feb 2018    nicola.wint   
Hon Karl Samuda (2nd right), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, greets dairy farmer Derrick Walker, following handover of fertilizers donated by the Jamaica Dairy Development Board (JDDB) at a function held in Rhymesbury, Clarendon, on February 16. Valued at $30m, the fertilizers were specially blended by Newport-Fersan for the development of pasture. Others from left are Donald Elvey, chairman of JDDB, and Dennis Valdez, managing director, Newport-Fersan. http://jis.gov.jm/dairy-farmers-urged-improve-competitiveness/ Source: JIS


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Minister Samuda views dairy cows

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 19 Feb 2018    nicola.wint   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Hon Karl Samuda (2nd right) views dairy cows along with dairy farmer Oral Wallace in Rhymesbury, Clarendon, on February 16 during a tour of his farm. Mr Wallace was one of over 60 farmers from St. Thomas, St. Elizabeth and Clarendon who benefited from fertilizers, specially blended by Newport-Fersan for pasture development, valued at $3m and donated by the Jamaica Dairy Development Board.


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