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In keeping with Government’s drive to promote diversification and increased production in the agricultural sector, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon Audley Shaw, has committed an additional 200 acres of land for lease to Dencon Foods JA Ltd Farm, through the SCJ Holdings Ltd.
Speaking at a function held at Dencon Foods in Spring Plain, Clarendon, on March 21, Minister Shaw had high praises for the newly established company for its venture into agricultural production, with 92 acres of land currently under onion cultivation and plans to expand production...

Government, through the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, will be spending some $752 million in the 2019/20 fiscal year, under the National Farm Roads Project as part of the measures to boost market access through improved road infrastructure.
So far for Manchester, 13 roads or approximately seven kilometres have been refurbished at a cost of $42 million.
The National Farm Roads Project aims to provide improved direct market access for an estimated 11,506 farmers across the island.
While commending the Manchester farmers for being the “highest in...

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (left), along with Ambassador of Mexico to Jamaica, H.E. Juan José González Mijares (centre); and Minister of State in the Ministry, Hon. Floyd Green, during a courtesy call at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on Tuesday, March 26, 2019. Minister Shaw and Ambassador Mijares discussed opportunities for cooperation between Jamaica and Mexico.

Hon Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, purchases lettuce from Casandra Hinds, farmer from Spice Grove in Manchester, at the Rural Agricultural Development Authority Manchester Open Day on March 22, 2019. The agriculture minister commended the Manchester farmers for being the highest domestic food crops producers in 2018 and encouraged them to plant even more crops while assuring them of Government’s commitment to provide the appropriate framework for the marketing of their produce.