The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining is urging farmers and fisherfolk to report any damage caused by Hurricane Beryl to the extension officers in their respective parishes or the Ministry directly.

To facilitate this, a contact list for all officers across the island is listed here: List of Extension Officers

July 9 (JIS):

The 2024 staging of the Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show, which has been dubbed ‘Denbigh 70’, will showcase the plethora of investment opportunities in the agricultural sector.

Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), Derron Grant, said the event will provide crucial information for business creation and expansion.

“We will be pitching the agriculture prospectus to showcase to the Jamaican public that investment in agriculture is as viable as any other [industry] in the island,” Mr. Grant said, while...

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Hon. Floyd Green, said preliminary reports suggest that Jamaica is looking at over a billion dollars in damages to its agriculture sector as a result of damages sustained from Hurricane Beryl.

Minister Green indicated that the southern parishes, namely Clarendon, Manchester and St. Elizabeth, received the brunt of the blow from Hurricane Beryl.

“From all our preliminary work thus far, St. Elizabeth has been the hardest hit and accounts for 70% of the damage we have seen so far,” Green highlighted.

Minister Green was...

June 24 (JIS):

The upcoming Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show, is attracting a record number of interests from potential exhibitors, according to Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Hon. Floyd Green.

“In terms of exhibits and people asking questions to be exhibitors, we are already at 20 per cent above the requests that we got last year. Denbigh is looking extremely good,” Mr. Green said.

He was speaking at the launch of the 70th staging of the event at the Hi-Pro Ace Supercentre, in White Marl, St. Catherine on June 21.

The Denbigh...