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Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon Audley Shaw, is calling on manufacturers to include more local ingredients in the manufacturing of their products.
He was speaking at a Knowledge Forum organised by Red Stripe under the theme ‘Beyond Talk: The Commercialization of the Cassava Value ‘, held at the Mona Visitors’ Lodge, UWI, Mona, on November 21, 2018.

“Brew ideas like Red Stripe,” Minister Shaw stated as he commended the company on its innovation and enterprise in the use of cassava in the brewing of its beer.
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Dr. Nickeshia Reid (2nd right) of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), discusses cassava varieties on display with Ricardo Nuncio, Managing Director of Red Stripe, at Red Stripe’s Knowledge Forum, which was organised under the theme ‘Beyond Talk: The Commercialization of the Cassava Value Chain, at Mona Visitors’ Lodge in St. Andrew on November 21, 2018. Others, from left, are Dr Lisa Myers Morgan, Principal Research Director, and Carla Douglas, Senior Research Director, both of the MICAF.

Hon Audley Shaw (2nd right), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, greets Gillian Hyde of the Jamaica National Group at Red Stripe’s Knowledge Forum, which was organised under the theme ‘Beyond Talk: The Commercialization of the Cassava Value Chain, at Mona Visitors’ Lodge in St. Andrew on November 21, 2018. Others, from left, are Master of Ceremony Garth Williams, Noel daCosta, Chairman, Desnoes & Geddes Foundation, and Ricardo Nuncio, Managing Director of Red Stripe.

Hon Audley Shaw (centre), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, poses with extension officers attached to Red Stripe’s Grow Jamaica project at Red Stripe’s Knowledge Forum, which was organised under the theme ‘Beyond Talk: The Commercialization of the Cassava Value Chain, at Mona Visitors’ Lodge in St. Andrew on November 21, 2018.