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Posted on 12/05/2017
Gov’t and EU sign consultancy agreement to review sugar industry model
Government and the European Commission signed a consultancy agreement for the development of a financial and economic model for the sugar industry, including the feasibility of ethanol production, at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries’ New Kingston offices...

Posted on 10/05/2017
Commodity boards to be dissolved – Samuda
Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Karl Samuda says that all the Commodity Boards under his portfolio are to be dissolved. These commodity boards will now fall under the ambit of the recently enacted Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority...

Posted on 08/05/2017
Samuda wants cassava cultivation to expand to 10,000 acres of land
Hon Karl Samuda, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, says he wants to see 10,000 acres of former cane lands transition to the cultivation of cassava. He was speaking at the signing of a 25-year lease agreement between SCJ...

Posted on 03/05/2017
Beet armyworm outbreak at the New Forest Duff House Agro-Park
From left, Hon J. C. Hutchinson, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries; discusses with Winston Miller, Parish Manager, Rural Agricultural Development Authority; and farmer Ralden Ballenfante scallion destroyed by the beet armyworm at the...

Posted on 28/04/2017
Agriculture Ministry Addresses Beet Army Worm Outbreak
The Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries is today assuring farmers that the Ministry is taking steps to monitor and control the recent outbreak of the Beet Army Worm Disease in the parishes of Manchester and St Elizabeth. The...

Posted on 26/04/2017
May 5, 2017@ 10:00 a.m.- 4 p.m.
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Posted on 25/04/2017
Tour of Hampden Sugar Estate
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda (2nd right), along with (from left) tour manager, Pepe Grant; chief executive officer, Andrew Hussey (both of Hampden Sugar Estate); and chairman, Sugar Company of Jamaica (SCJ) Holdings, Wentworth Charles....

Posted on 25/04/2017
Min. Samuda tours stables at Hampden Sugar Estate
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda takes a close look at the horses during a tour of the Hampden Sugar Estate in Trelawny, on April 21, 2017.

Posted on 25/04/2017
CAC SECURES OVER J$21.5 MILLION IN REFUNDS/COMPENSATION FOR CONSUMERS
The Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) has secured over J$21.5 million in refunds and compensation on behalf of aggrieved consumers for the 2016/17 Financial Year. This is as a result of the Commission resolving 1,377 of 1,453 complaints handled and represents...