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Business partners and operators of OMG Farms (from left) Cofounder and Managing Director, Jevaughn Whyte; Cofounder and Director of Logistics, Terrique Goldson, and Agricultural Service Manager, Patrick White.

Friends operate successful farm

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 27 Aug 2020    communications   
Farming, a profession not popularly known to attract youth in Jamaica, has proven to be a fulfilling passion for friends, Jevaughn Whyte and Terrique Goldson, who with their business partner, agriculturalist Patrick White, successfully operate OMG Farms. “OMG Farms is the number-one cultivator of pineapples in Jamaica, and we will be expanding into other produce. We started essentially because we wanted to have greater control in terms of what we put into our bodies. My co-founder and myself initially joked at the idea of having our own farm years ago,” Co-founder and Managing Director of OMG...


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Dasheen production increased under Agriculture Ministry’s incentive programme

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 25 Aug 2020    communications   
There has been a four per cent increase in the production of dasheen for the 2019/20 crop year under the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries’ Production Incentive Programme. This was disclosed by Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) Zonal Director for the Eastern Zone, Mervyn Green, when compared to the 2018/19 crop year. Mr. Green also indicated that for that year a total of $10 million was expended on dasheen production, which included the purchase of 32 motorized sprayers. Plans are now in the offing to further increase production by adding more hectares to...


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Innovation-Based Entrepreneurship Encouraged For World Entrepreneurship Day

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 21 Aug 2020    ICTAdmin   
In recognition of World Entrepreneurship Day 2020 to be celebrated on Friday, August 21, the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), through its MSME Office, is encouraging entrepreneurs operating as micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to pursue innovation-based entrepreneurship over necessity-based entrepreneurship. Necessity-based entrepreneurship refers to business activities initiated by entrepreneurs for their own survival and to satisfy their financial needs and they are generally not interested in innovating or expanding their operation. Innovation-...


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Jamaica to reap 3,000 tonnes of hot pepper under incentive programme

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 21 Aug 2020    communications   
Jamaica is expected to reap another 3,000 metric tonnes of hot peppers for the 2020/21 crop year under the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries’ Production Incentive Programme (PIP). This was disclosed by Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) Parish Agriculture Manager for St. Elizabeth, Nathan Samuels, who noted that approximately $60 million has been budgeted to increase production of hot peppers. “Hot peppers have remained one of Jamaica’s most promising non-traditional export crops. There are many varieties of hot peppers; however, the ones that are of...


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Consumer Alert!

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 17 Aug 2020    communications   
Survey of Agricultural Produce - Week Ending August 8, 2020. Click link for full list: https://www.cac.gov.jm/portal/index.php/special-features/publications/ca...


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Chief Executive Officer, Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC), (CEO), Valerie Veira.

JBDC Stages Employee Engagement Seminars October

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 17 Aug 2020    communications   
The Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) will be staging a series of online Employee Engagement Seminars during the month of October. The seminars, under the theme ‘Lead in the Moment: Empower. Pivot. Grow’, will be held every Thursday between October 8 and 29, and will feature a host of international and local speakers. Chief Executive Officer of the JBDC, Valerie Veira, told JIS News that the events seek to equip employers to gain workers’ solid commitment to the organisation’s goals, culture and brand, and to develop employees who consistently go the extra mile to produce...


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Agriculture Minister discusses closure of Appleton Factory with sugar cane industry stakeholders

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 14 Aug 2020    communications   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon Audley Shaw, has commended the management of Appleton Estate for the plans that the company has developed to ensure a smooth and amicable transitioning of former sugar cane workers and farmers with the closure of the factory. ‘We must work together to promote and preserve the interest of all stakeholders,” said Minister Shaw, who assured the stakeholders of Government’s continued support to the industry. The Agriculture Minister was addressing participants in a virtual meeting organised by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce,...


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President of Jamaica Promotions Corporation, Diane Edwards.

JAMPRO Working To Make Jamaica The Best Place To Do Business In The Caribbean

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 14 Aug 2020    communications   
President of Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), Diane Edwards, says the agency is working towards making Jamaica the best place to do business in the Caribbean. This, she said, will be done through several pieces of legislation being worked on, which will catapult the country into the top-10 of the Doing Business Report. “We’re already number six in the world in starting a business, because you can do it pretty much online, but we’re actually setting up a National Business Portal which will allow you to do a number of different applications, so for instance, applying to this Special...


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Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Leslie Campbell, making a statement to the House of Representatives on Tuesday (July 28).

Agriculture Ministry Providing $50 Million For Production Incentive, Drought Mitigation

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 10 Aug 2020    communications   
The Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries will be making $50 million available to support the production incentive and drought mitigation/climate mitigation programmes in each constituency. This was disclosed by Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry, Hon. Leslie Campbell during a statement to the House of Representatives on Tuesday (July 28). “A total of $35 million is being made available to the Members of Parliament and we are pleased to issue each Member of Parliament with their letters, representing an allocation of approximately $555,000 per constituency,” Mr...


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Sweet yam farmer Shermaine Barnett tends to her farm in Endeavour in the parish of St. Ann.

Sweet yam farmer has high praises for RADA

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 05 Aug 2020    communications   
Farmer Shermaine Barnett has high praises for the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) for the support given to her in the development of her sweet yam farm in Endeavour in the parish of St. Ann. The 40 year-old mother of 12-year-old Zarek, is one of 500 farmers growing sweet yam and approximately 4,000 farmers islandwide benefitting under the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries’ Production Incentive Programme (PIP). The PIP is managed by RADA and targets nine crops, namely ginger, strawberry, cassava, Irish potato, onion, sweet and yellow yams, hot pepper and...


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