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Hon Karl Samuda (left) Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, in dialogue with Cynthia Sankar (centre), Managing Director of Sankar Farms and Ambassador Derrick Heaven (right) at the 68th Annual General Meeting of the All-Island Cane Farmers’ Association, held at the Spanish Court Hotel on November 15.

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), Donovan Stanberry (left), presents onion farmer Pamelitta Dann from Yallahs, Agro-Park, with a Food Safety Management Systems certificate, at the Pesticides Survey Results Presentation Ceremony, held at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, New Kingston, on Friday, November 17, 2017. Forty-three farmers were awarded the Food Safety Mgmt. certificate.The main objective of the survey was to evaluate food safety issues associated with pesticide use and, in particular, to identify pesticide use problems that...

Hon J.C. Hutchinson, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, in discussion with representatives of Ebony Park HEART Academy during a visit to their booth at the HEART College of Hospitality Services & Western Hospitality Institute’s Agro-Tourism Trade Show, held at The Cardiff Hotel & Spa in St. Ann on November 16.

Industry Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Karl Samuda has announced that regulations are now in place that will ensure that all coffee that is imported, packaged and sold locally will be mixed with Jamaican green beans.
The objective of this measure is to boost the expansion of Jamaican coffee and eventually eliminate the importation of green beans.
According to Minister Samuda, when persons import coffee, mix it with cheap imported beans and sell that product to hotels as coffee that is processed and packaged in Jamaica, it cheapens and destroys the...

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), Donovan Stanberry (left), presents Grandville Francis, onion farmer from Yallahs, Agro-Park, with a Food Safety Management Systems certificate, at the Pesticides Survey Results Presentation Ceremony, held at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, New Kingston, on Friday, November 17, 2017. Forty-three farmers were awarded with the Food Safety Management certificate.The main objective of the survey was to evaluate food safety issues associated with pesticide use and, in particular, to identify pesticide use...

Permanent secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Donovan Stanberry, is urging Jamaicans to build a culture of food safety.
Mr Stanberry, who was speaking at the presentation of research findings on pesticide application by farmers, held November 17 at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, said more fertiliser was being used in Jamaican agriculture than was necessary.
He pointed out that although the application of fertilisers was necessary to increase food production, it was equally important to ensure the proper and appropriate use of pesticides...

Hon Karl Samuda, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, dancing for sugar with Karen Smith at the 68th Annual General Meeting of the All-Island Cane Farmers’ Association, held at the Spanish Court Hotel on November 15.

Keleen Young-Grandison (right), head and Kerry-Ann Walters, project technical specialist, both of the Sugar Transformation Unit , discuss green cane harvesting with farmer Garth Genus at the 68th Annual General Meeting of the All-Island Jamaica Cane Farmers’ Association, held at the Spanish Court Hotel on November 15.