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23 December 2020

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green (left), presents a voucher to fisher, Swelette Phillips, at a ceremony to handover vouchers for the purchase of fishing gear and other equipment, at the St. Theresa Catholic Church in St. Mary on December 17.

St. Mary fishers benefit from the handover of vouchers totalling $2.1million to purchase fishing equipment

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 23 Dec 2020   
Seventy fishers, who were impacted by COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in the parish of St. Mary, on Thursday (December 17), benefitted from the handover of vouchers valued at $30,000 by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. The vouchers are to be used to purchase fishing gear and other equipment, which had been lost at sea during the period of restrictions following an outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Addressing a ceremony to handover the vouchers to fishers at the St. Theresa Catholic Church in Annotto Bay, Portfolio Minister, Hon. Floyd Green, said it was important to pay more...
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green, addresses a ceremony at the National Irrigation Commission's New Forrest Office in Manchester on December 11 to hand over equipment valued at $29 million to the NIC and the Water Resources Authority (WRA) under the Essex Valley Agriculture Development Project (EVADP).

Agriculture Ministry Increasing The Use Of Solar Energy To Power Irrigation Schemes

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 23 Dec 2020   
The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is on a major drive to increase the use of solar energy to power its irrigation schemes across the island, in order to reduce operational expenditure and the reliance on fossil fuels. Portfolio Minister, Hon. Floyd Green, said it is anticipated that within the next two years, irrigation systems operated by the National Irrigation Commission (NIC) Limited will be run by solar technology. He noted that, already, significant savings has been realised from the installation of the first large-scale solar photovoltaic system at the Bengal pump station in...
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green (left), looks at a life jacket, which was among fishing gear and equipment on display at a ceremony for the handover of grants to fishers from St. Mary at the St. Theresa Roman Catholic Church in Annotto Bay on Thursday (December 17). Others (from left) are President of the South East St. Mary Fisherman’s Group, Natalee Lynch; Minister of State for Industry, Investment and Commerce and Member of Parliament for St. Mary South Eastern, Norman Dunn; and Board Chairman, National Fisheries Authority, Leuitenant Commander George Overton.

St. Mary Fishers Receive Grants To Purchase Equipment

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 23 Dec 2020   
Thirty fishers from St. Mary, who have been hit hard by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, have been provided with cash vouchers valued at $30,000 each to acquire fishing gear and other inputs. Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green, handed over the vouchers during a ceremony on Thursday (December 17) at St. Theresa Roman Catholic Church in Annotto Bay. Grants in similar amounts were presented to fishers operating at Hellshire, Hunts Bay, Port Henderson, and Old Harbour Bay in St. Catherine on December 9. The support is part of a broader incentive programme under which 4...
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green; and President of the Walkerswood Farmers’ Association, Denyse Perkins bumping elbows after signing the custodian agreement for the handover of water harvesting infrastructure to farming groups, during a ceremony at the Ministry’s Hope Gardens location on December 16.

Agriculture Ministry Hands Over Water Harvesting Systems To Farming Groups

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 23 Dec 2020   
The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, on Wednesday (December 16), handed over conditional ownership for water harvesting infrastructure to 12 water user (farming) groups in seven parishes across the island. These include reservoirs, catchment and storage tanks (both on-farm and central) as well as drip irrigation systems, which were constructed in Clarendon, St. Catherine, St. Mary, St. Thomas, St. Ann, Manchester and Trelawny under the second component of the Government of Jamaica’s Adaptation Fund Programme. Being implemented by the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) through a...

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