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Acting Director General of the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA), Gusland McCook (centre), receives a coffee seedling from Japanese Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Hiromasa Yamazaki (right), at a handover ceremony of the seedlings to farmers, at Ueshima Coffee Company Limited in Rose Hill, Woodford, St. Andrew on October 4. At right, is Councillor of the Gordon Town Division in East Rural St. Andrew, Neville Whittaker.

Two hundred farmers set to receive 50,000 coffee seedlings

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 07 Oct 2019    communications   
A total of 200 coffee farmers from communities in the Blue Mountain areas of St. Andrew are set to benefit from the distribution of 50,000 coffee seedlings with the establishment of the Blue Mountain coffee nursery. This is being made possible under the Japanese Government’s Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Project and will impact farmers from Woodford, Red Light, Middleton, Sugar Loaf, Settlement, Penfield and Irish Town. The project, which is being implemented by the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA), is funded by the Embassy of Japan in Jamaica to...


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Handover ceremony of coffee seedlings to farmers

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 07 Oct 2019    communications   
Chief Planning Analyst in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Karl Hyatt (second left) looks on as Japanese Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Hiromasa Yamazaki (right), makes a point at a handover ceremony of coffee seedlings to farmers, at Ueshima Coffee Company Limited in Rose Hill, Woodford, St. Andrew on October 4. Others from left listening in are Acting Director General of the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA), Gusland McCook and Councillor of the Gordon Town Division in East Rural St. Andrew, Neville Whittaker.


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Ribbon cutting ceremony to symbolically present coffee seedlings to farmers

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 07 Oct 2019    communications   
Chief Planning Analyst in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Karl Hyatt (left) participates in the ribbon cutting ceremony to symbolically present coffee seedlings to farmers, at Ueshima Coffee Company Limited in Rose Hill, Woodford, St. Andrew on October 4. Others from second left are Acting Director General of the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA), Gusland McCook; Japanese Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Hiromasa Yamazaki, and Councillor of the Gordon Town Division in East Rural St. Andrew, Neville Whittaker.


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Minister Shaw greets Research Fellow Sayeda Yasmin-Karim

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 04 Oct 2019    communications   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (left), greets Research Fellow, Harvard Medical, Sayeda Yasmin-Karim, during a courtesy call at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on Tuesday, October 1, 2019. Looking on is Chief Executive Officer, Integrated Genetic and Biopharma Research, Daniel Weadock. The Harvard International Phytomedicine and Medical Cannabis Institute (HIPI) team is conducting an informational tour in Jamaica, with a view to establishing a Jamaica Phytomedicine Institute with ties to the HIPI.


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Minister Shaw meets with Harvard team

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 04 Oct 2019    communications   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (left), in discussion with (from left) Director, Harvard Global Health Catalyst, Professor Wilfred Ngwa; Medical Professor Dr. the Hon. Julius Garvey; and Research Fellow, Harvard Medical, Sayeda Yasmin-Karim, during a courtesy call at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on Tuesday, October 1, 2019. The Harvard International Phytomedicine and Medical Cannabis Institute (HIPI) team is conducting an informational tour in Jamaica, with a view to establishing a Jamaica Phytomedicine Institute with ties to the HIPI.


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Opening ceremony of the 10th GFRAS Annual Meeting

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 04 Oct 2019    communications   
Hon Floyd Green (2nd left), Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, along with Nigel Myrie (left), Chairman, and Peter Thompson, Chief Executive Officer, both of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority, listen keenly to Everton Parkes of the Jamaica Dairy Development Board during a tour of its booth on October 1, 2019. The occasion was the opening ceremony for the 10th Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services held in Negril, Jamaica, under the theme 'Role of Advisory Services in Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management’.


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10th GFRASS Annual Meeting

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 04 Oct 2019    communications   
Hon. Floyd Green (3rd left), Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, shares a light moment with (from left) Peter Thompson, CEO, Nigel Myrie, Chairman, both of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority, and Dr. Carl Larsen, Executive Secretary, Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) at the opening ceremony of the 10th GFRAS Annual Meeting in Negril, Jamaica, on October 1, 2019.


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Dr Carl Larsen (left), Executive Secretary of the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS), welcomes the Hon Floyd Green, Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, to the 10th GFRAS Annual Meeting in Negril, Jamaica, on October 1, 2019. Others from left are Peter Thompson, Chief Executive Officer, and Nigel Myrie, Chairman, both of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority. The forum, which has delegates from several countries such as Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Bolivia, Korea, Italy, United States and South Africa, is being held under the theme 'Role of Rural Advisory Services in Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management'.

Green urges rural agricultural service providers to advocate change

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 03 Oct 2019    communications   
Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon. Floyd Green, has challenged rural agricultural services providers to be advocates of change, as they examine their role in climate change and disaster risk management. The Minister made the call on Tuesday, October 1 as he delivered the keynote address at the official launch of the 10th Global Forum for Rural Agricultural Services (GFRAS) Annual Meeting being held at the Royalton Negril hotel, September 30 and October 4, 2019. “I urge you to use your group as an active and a global forum to continue...


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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), in dialogue with Vice President, National Consumers’ League (NCL), Michael Diamond (centre); and Professor Fitzroy Henry, School of Allied Health and Wellness, University of Technology, at the 52nd Annual General Meeting of the NCL, held under the theme Consumers Health, Jamaica’s Wealth: ‘Healthy Approach to Nation Building’, at the Multipurpose Facility, Bureau of Standards Jamaica, Winchester Road, Kingston, on Wednesday, October 2, 2019.

Minister Shaw lauds the work of the National Consumers’ League

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 03 Oct 2019    communications   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon Audley Shaw, has lauded the work of the National Consumers’ League. “I must applaud you for your loyal and faithful support over the past fifty-three years. You have contributed so much over these years towards the empowerment of our citizens through activism and the provision of information that allows our consumers to make educated choices and, I urge you to continue the charge,” the Minister said. Minister Shaw was addressing the National Consumers’ League of Jamaica 52nd Annual General Meeting held under the theme, ‘Consumers...


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