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December 2024
 

Principal Director, Planning and Policy, Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Shaun Baugh, addresses the opening session of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) national consultation to discuss priorities for Jamaica’s food and nutrition security and rural development held at The Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston on February 20.

Gov’t Working with FAO to Develop Insurance Scheme for Farmers

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 23 Feb 2018    communications   
The Government of Jamaica is working with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to develop an insurance scheme for crop and livestock farmers. Principal Director, Planning and Policy, Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Shaun Baugh, said that there have been models in the past that have worked, but they were not sustainable. “We are now in a very serious way, looking at all the past initiatives and putting them together to make a specific insurance scheme that our farmers will buy into and will benefit the country,” he said. Mr. Baugh was...


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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), Hon. Karl Samuda (centre), along with (l-r) General Manager, Argyle Street Management Limited, Liao Hui Heng; General Manager, Guangzhou Panyu Huanan Group Energy Sources Corporation Limited, Kuang Zhi Yuan; Deputy General Manager, China National Complete Plant Import and Export Group Corporation Limited & Chairman, China National Complete Plant International Sugar Industry Corporation Limited, Han Hong; Business Development Associate, Huazhong Group (Guangdong) Corporation Limited, Xie Zi Dan; Permanent Secretary, MICAF, Donovan Stanberry; and Chief Executive Officer, Pan Caribbean Sugar Company, Madam Liu Chao Yu, at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices, on Tuesday, February 20, 2018. The visiting delegation met with Minister Samuda to provide an update on activities at the Monymusk and Frome Sugar factories and to discuss the way forward for the industry.

Govt. committed to Jamaica’s sugar industry- Samuda

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 22 Feb 2018    communications   
Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Karl Samuda has reiterated that the Government through the Ministry is committed to the growth and development of the sugar industry in Jamaica. The Minister noted that despite the many challenges that the industry is facing, if properly managed, it is sustainable. Minister Samuda was speaking at a meeting with representatives of COMPLANT/Pan Caribbean Sugar Co. Ltd., at his New Kingston offices on February 20, 2018. The meeting was convened to discuss issues relating to the latest developments at the Monymusk Sugar Factory in...


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JDDB hands over fertilizers to dairy farmers

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 19 Feb 2018    communications   
Hon Karl Samuda (2nd right), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, greets dairy farmer Derrick Walker, following handover of fertilizers donated by the Jamaica Dairy Development Board (JDDB) at a function held in Rhymesbury, Clarendon, on February 16. Valued at $30m, the fertilizers were specially blended by Newport-Fersan for the development of pasture. Others from left are Donald Elvey, chairman of JDDB, and Dennis Valdez, managing director, Newport-Fersan. http://jis.gov.jm/dairy-farmers-urged-improve-competitiveness/ Source: JIS


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Gov’t Commits $70 Million to Help Trelawny Farmers Transport Sugar Cane

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 16 Feb 2018    communications   
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda, says the Government has committed another $70 million to assist farmers in Trelawny with the transportation of sugar cane to the Appleton Estate and Worthy Park factories this year. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 63rd Hague Agricultural and Industrial Show in Trelawny on Wednesday (February 14), Mr. Samuda said the Government is cognisant of the challenges being faced by farmers since the shutdown of sugar production at the Clarks Town-based Long Pond Factory in the parish a few years ago. “I have been able...


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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon. Karl Samuda (left), converses with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Representative for Jamaica, The Bahamas and Belize, Dr. Gillian Smith, at the launch of the 35th Session of the FAO Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Ministry’s New Kingston office on Tuesday (February 13).

Jamaica to Host FAO Regional Conference March 5 to 8

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 15 Feb 2018    communications   
Jamaica will be hosting the 35th Session of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean from March 5 to 8 at the Montego Bay Conference Centre in Rose Hall, St. James. The three-day event is expected to attract ministers of agriculture, social development, education, health and environment and other high-level officials from the 33 FAO member nations across the Americas to discuss challenges and priority matters related to food and agriculture. It will focus on four main areas – eradicating hunger, overweight and obesity; ending rural...


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