Jamaica’s 154,000 smallholder farmers occupy the majority of the country’s agricultural land area (440,000 hectares) and are the backbone of the Caribbean country’s agriculture sector. They are ...

The prime minister’s clarion call for economic transformation marks a watershed moment for Jamaica. Breaking free from six decades of anaemic 1-2 per cent growth, the nation stands at a crossroads ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, January 26, 2010 – Jamaica’s coffee farmers are now one step closer to effective crop insurance coverage, based on an agreement signed today by Agriculture Minister, Dr. the Hon.

Jamaica has secured the wins in two categories at the Caribbean Week of Agriculture 2023, being held in Nassau, Bahamas from October 9 to 13. Diandra Rowe, the managing director of Abbey Garden Farm ...

Jamaica Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, has challenged the local agricultural sector to make a greater effort to satisfy the demands of Jamaica’s tourism sector for fresh fruits, vegetables ...

With the Caribbean already having, last year, rolled out several initiatives aimed at shoring its food sufficiency bona fides in the wake the food security ‘shots’ fired across its bows by the United ...

In the three weeks since Hurricane Melissa struck Jamaica, with destructive winds of up to 185 miles per hour, authorities have been busy addressing immediate crises and assessing the damage. The ...

CROSS KEYS, Jamaica — Alance Wisdom got inside her home just in time to watch the ceiling of her front room collapse. As the rain rushed in, a violent wind ripped at the roof, piece by piece.

A PAMPHLET of 86 pages (Bulletin No. 14, New Series ; 1938) issued by the Department of Science and Agriculture of Jamaica indicates the thoroughness with which that Government Department organizes ...