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Opening Session of the CARICOM Risk Assessment and Product Safety Workshop

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 08 Feb 2017    communications   
Chief Technical Director in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Stephen Wedderburn (left) in dialogue with Chief Executive Officer, Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC), Dolsie Allen (2nd left); Senior Coordinator – Hemispheric and Bilateral Negotiations, CARICOM Secretariat, Office of the Trade Negotiations (Jamaica), Michele Lowe; and Board Chairman, CAC, Kent Gammon at the opening session of the CARICOM Risk Assessment and Product Safety Workshop, held at the Marriott Courtyard Hotel, New Kingston on Wednesday, February 8, 2016. The CARICOM Rapid Alert Exchange...


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Hon Karl Samuda (2nd left), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, examines cocoa beans which have been processed by the power nutcracker in the foreground, one of several chocolate equipment manufactured by Cocoatown. Minister Samuda was touring several displays at the International Fine Cocoa Innovation Centre’s 2nd Conference, Symposium and Chocolate Exposition, held at the Spanish Court Hotel in Kingston today (February 6). Others, from left, are Balu Balasubramanian, chief executive officer and Andal Balau, president, both of Cocoatown, and Vernon Barrett, international business consultant of Newer Worlds in the United Kingdom.

Samuda wants cocoa expansion

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 06 Feb 2017    communications   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon Karl Samuda, has issued an appeal for the expansion of the cocoa industry in Jamaica and the rest of the Caribbean. The Minister made the appeal while speaking today, February 6, at the at the opening ceremony for the International Fine Cocoa Innovation Centre’s 2nd Conference, Symposium and Chocolate Exposition, held at the Spanish Court Hotel in Kingston. Minister Samuda stressed the fact that in spite of the vast potential of the fine-flavoured cocoa industry, production in Jamaica, for example, had declined by about 50 per...


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2nd Conference, Symposium and Chocolate Exposition

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 06 Feb 2017    communications   
Hon Karl Samuda (2nd left), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, in conversation with Professor Dale Webber ( 3rd left), pro-vice-chancellor at the University of the West Indies (UWI); at the opening ceremony for the International Fine Cocoa Innovation Centre’s 2nd Conference, Symposium and Chocolate Exposition, held at the Spanish Court Hotel in Kingston today (February 6). Others, from left, are Vernon Barrett, international business consultant of Newer Worlds; and Professor Pathmanathan Umaharan, director of the Cocoa Research Centre at the UWI.


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Launch of JN SEBI Summit

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 03 Feb 2017    communications   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda (centre) is in deep discussion with Saffrey Brown (left), general manager JN Foundation and Earl Jarrett, head, JN Group. The occasion was at the launch of SEBI at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel on Monday, January 30, 2017.


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Courtesy Call on Hon. Karl Samuda by Madam Liu

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 03 Feb 2017    communications   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), Hon. Karl Samuda along with (from left) Chief Executive Officer, Pan Caribbean Sugar Company, Madam Liu Chaoyu; Interpreter, Sun Y’ Dan and Permanent Secretary at MICAF, Donovan Stanberry during a courtesy call at the Ministry’s New Kingston Office on Thursday, February 2, 2017.


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Hon Karl Samuda (right), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, in discussion with Norman Grant (left), chief executive officer of the Mavis Bank Coffee Factory and secretary of the Jamaica Coffee Exporters Association; and James Rawle, chairman of the Standards Council, Bureau of Standards Jamaica, at the launch of the revised Jamaican Standard Specification for Coffee in Kingston on February 1.

Agriculture Minister urges Farmers to expand Coffee Production beyond Blue Mountains

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 02 Feb 2017    communications   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda is urging local farmers to expand production of low- land and high- mountain coffee in an effort to reduce green coffee bean imports. Low- land and high- mountain coffee is grown outside of the Blue Mountain range in parishes such as Clarendon, St. Catherine, Manchester and St. James. Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee is sometimes mixed with other coffee beans to produce a coffee blend that is in high demand but fetches relatively lower prices. The country imported just under 430 tonnes of green coffee beans valuing US$1...


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Dr. Ralston Bent, veterinary surgeon at Serge Island Farms, explains how to use the Asuntol pesticide for treatment of ticks on animals during a Farmer Field School training organised by the Jamaica Dairy Development Board (JDDB) for dairy farmers on January 26 at Hillside in St. Thomas. At 2nd right is Donald Elvey, chairman of the JDDB.

Dairy Farmers Train Farmers in Pesticide Treatment

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 01 Feb 2017    communications   
In an effort to reduce parasite infestation among animals, several dairy farmers in the Hillside community of St. Thomas were exposed to pesticide training and treatment of animals by the Jamaica Dairy Development Board on January 26. The training, which involved instructions on how to apply tickicide and demonstrations using spraying and the pour on methodologies, was aimed at encouraging farmers to utilise good agricultural practices thus ensuring that the animals produce milk that is healthy. Byron Lawrence, coordinator of the Dairy Sector Revitalisation Programme, said the training was...


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Farmer Field Pesticide Training

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 01 Feb 2017    communications   
Romaine Brown, farm assistant at Serge Island Farms, demonstrates application of Eprinox to animal during Farmer Field School pesticide training organised by the Jamaica Dairy Development Board for dairy farmers on January 26 at Hillside in St. Thomas.


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Launch of the Jamaican Standard Specification for Coffee

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 01 Feb 2017    communications   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda (right) in dialogue with President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society, Mr. Norman Grant and Chairman of the Standard Council of the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), Mr. James Rawle at the launch of the Jamaican Standard Specification for Coffee held at the BSJ’s Winchester office on Wednesday, February 1, 2017.


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Donald Elvey, chairman of the Jamaica Dairy Development Board (JDDB), examines Mulatto 11 grass during a tour of one of the projects implemented by the JDDB in St. Thomas. As part of its drought mitigation strategy, the JDDB, in collaboration with Serge Island Farms, planted a 17-acre demonstration plot on land owned by Serge Island Farms to demonstrate the advantages of using it as fodder. Others from left are JDDB’s Hugh Graham, chief executive officer; deputy chairman, Dr. Sophia Ramlal; Everton Parkes, farming systems specialist; and Dr. Gavin Bellamy, general manager, Serge Island Farms.

Dairy Board Programme Increases Milk Production

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 31 Jan 2017    communications   
Following the establishment of a fodder bank by the Jamaica Dairy Development Board (JDDB) on 17 acres of land, using the Mulatto 11 grass, Serge Island Farms is now reporting a 5% increase in milk production over the previous year. This project is one of several fodder banks established by the Ministry, through the JDDB’s Dairy Sector Revitalisation Programme, covering 141.77 hectares of land where 23 small dairy farmers in Clarendon, St. Elizabeth, St. Catherine and St. Thomas have been provided with financial and technical assistance. Speaking during a tour of the Serge Island fodder...


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