Hon Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture, and Fisheries, and Monique Solomon, Entomologist, Plant Quarantine/Plant Inspection Branch, Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries; view specimen of frosty pod rot infected cocoa during a tour of displays at the Opening Ceremony of the 11th Annual Caribbean Plant Health Directors’ Forum held in Montego Bay, St. James, on July 16.
Shaw urges regional plant health directors to safeguard crops
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon. Audley Shaw, has called on regional plant health directors to provide the strategies to safeguard the Caribbean against plant pests and diseases. Minister Shaw made the appeal as he delivered the keynote address at the official opening ceremony of the 11th Annual Caribbean Plant Health Directors’ Forum at the Iberostar Conference Centre in Montego Bay. As a region, Minister Shaw told delegates from 26 countries, “our ability to produce crops to meet national and regional demands continues to be plagued by many issues, chief...
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