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The Jamaica Dairy Development Board (JDDB) has secured a silage packing machine and accompanying new technology that will improve access to nutritious feed material for dairy cattle nationwide. This was made possible through funding from the USAID through its Ja REEACH II project.
The silo-packer machine, the first of its kind in Jamaica, will allow the JDDB to support small dairy farmers islandwide to store fodder as silage in order to continue to provide nutrition to their animals during periods when feed material is scarce or unavailable.
Speaking at the handover of the...

Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, the Hon. Audley Shaw, reiterated Government’s commitment to support the revitalization of Jamaica’s sugar industry at the Sugar Industry Authority’s (SIA’) 3rd Annual Post Crop Seminar held September 13 at the Authority’s Research Division in Mandeville, under the theme The Future of the Jamaican Sugar Industry.
“Government cannot simply abandon the sugar industry and we do not intend to. We have a duty and a responsibility to create the enabling parameters to aid the industry to emerge from its current doldrums,” Shaw told...

From left, Hon Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Member of Parliament for Clarendon South Eastern, Hon. Rudyard Spencer; Hon Karl Samuda, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Board Chairman, National Housing Trust, Lennox Channer; and Director, SCJ Holdings Limited (SCJH), Horace Charoo, in discussion at the groundbreaking ceremony for the development of 84 serviced lots at Monymusk Glades in Clarendon on September 12.

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon Audley Shaw (3rd left), sprays the first bag of silage packaged by the silo packer machine at the handover of the machine by the Ja REEACH 11 Project to the Jamaica Dairy Development Board (JDDB), held at Bodles Research Station in St. Catherine on September 12. Others from left are Karyll Aitcheson, Chief of Party, Ja REEACH 11 Project; Dr Lisa Myers-Morgan, Principal Research Director, Research and Development Division, Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries; Oliver Elliot, Project Monitoring Officer at...