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Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw, is reiterating a call for investments to be made in the growth of certain fruit tree crops in order to reduce Jamaica’s high food import bill.
The crops include soursop, guava and West Indian cherry.
“We have the climatic conditions and the established historical conditions that we can produce them on a large industrial scale,” he said.
The Minister was speaking at a tour of the farm and factory of Trade Winds Citrus Limited in Bog Walk, St. Catherine, on Wednesday (June 26).
The company is...

Marina Young (right), Chairman of the National Agriculture Disaster Risk Management Committee, discusses Institutional Framework and Terms of Reference for Integrating Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation in Jamaica’s Agriculture Sector Booklet with the Hon. Audley Shaw (2nd left), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, at the National Agriculture Disaster Risk Management Committee Meeting, held at the Medallion Hall Hotel in Kingston on June 27. Others from left are Richard Thompson, Acting Director General, Office of Disaster Preparedness and...

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (left), in dialogue with Executive Director, International Cocoa Organization, Michel Arrion, during a meeting at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on Thursday, June 27, 2019. Matters discussed at the meeting included the Frosty Pod Rot disease and preservation of the trees.

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (2nd right), in discussion with (from left) Executive Director, International Cocoa Organization, Michel Arrion; Representative of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Dr. Elizabeth Johnson; Acting Director General, Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority, Gusland McCook; and Acting Chief Technical Director of Special Projects in the Ministry, Roy McNeil, during a meeting at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on Thursday, June 27, 2019. Matters discussed at the meeting...

Hon Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, greets Bree Romuld, Value Chains and Agribusiness Technical Consultant, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, at the National Agriculture Disaster Risk Management Committee Meeting, held at the Medallion Hall Hotel in Kingston on June 27.