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Hon Karl Samuda (left), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, presents gardening tool and plant to Kimay Sloley and St. Patrick Smith, students of Hopewell High School in Hanover, at the World Food Day National Ceremony & Exhibition, held at Knockalva Agricultural School on October 12. In the background is the agriculture teacher Jerome Smith.

The Ministry of Industry, Commerce , Agriculture and Fisheries through the Jamaica Dairy Development Board is providing a multimillion dollar support package to the Knockalva Agricultural School in Ramble, Hanover.
This was announced by Minister Karl Samuda on Thursday, October 12 as the school hosted the National World Food Day Ceremony and Exhibition under the theme ‘Change the future of migration. Invest in food security and rural development’.
A cheque, valued at $6 million and representing the first tranche of the financial support to the school was also handed over at...

Chief Executive Officer, Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ), Judith Ramlogan (left), along with (from left) Deputy CEO, COJ, Shellie Leon; Retired Judge of Appeal, Hon. Justice Ferdinand Smith; and Acting Government Trustee, Office of the Government Trustee, Fayola Evans-Roberts, at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries’ (MICAF) New Kingston offices, on Tuesday, October 10, 2017. Occasion was an Insolvency Sensitization Seminar for attorneys-at-law and Stakeholders, facilitated by the Office of the Supervisor of Insolvency (OSI), MICAF and GOJ/World Bank Foundation...

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon J.C. Hutchinson, launched a pilot project, Agriculture Push Start Programme, aimed at giving a start to persons who want to pursue agriculture as a business. He was addressing farmers at the National Irish Potato and Onion Production Seminar in Guy’s Hill, St. Catherine, on October 11.
Commencing with the production of three crops - Irish potato, onion and Scotch bonnet pepper, the programme, Minister Hutchinson said, will target youth and women while embracing all agricultural...