The Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) is working closely with turmeric, ginger and pimento farmers to apply research from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food for Progress Jamaica Spices (JaSPICE) project to improve crop quality.
Director for Strategic Planning and Projects at RADA, Vaughn Barnaby told JIS News that the project is being implemented over five years and is now in its extension phase to transfer new knowledge to farmers.

“Extension happens where we are taking that research and mobilizing that with the farmers. The authority now works with...

The Government is finalising a modern legal framework for the sugar industry and will shortly establish a dedicated training institute for the sector, according to Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Hon. Floyd Green.

He said the industry remains a very important sector that is still critical to the nation’s food security matrix, and the Government must lead a process to renew laws regulating the industry for profitability.

“We have to have a facilitatory framework that ensures that people who want to invest in sugar can do so and do so profitably. Farmers should...

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining has received approximately $10 million in irrigation infrastructure support and farming supplies to boost agricultural resilience in Hounslow, St. Elizabeth.

The donation, which was handed over by GraceKennedy (GK) Foods at the National Irrigation Commission (NIC) Hounslow pump house on November 1, included $6.2 million to purchase a generator and more than $3 million of direct support to farmers through the provision of fertilisers, irrigation supplies and seedlings.

This formed part of ongoing public-private partnerships in...