agriculture
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Agriculture Minister Expects Growth To Continue
KINGSTON (JIS) — Minister of Agriculture, Labour and Social Security, Hon. Derrick Kellier, is expecting the agricultural sector to continue its recovery during this quarter. The Minister said that since 2012, the sector has experienced both “highs and lows,” beginning the recovery in 2013, which continued into the first two quarters of last year, with growth rates of 18 and…
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Two Caribbean countries to benefit from fisheries project
(PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC) – Two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries stand to benefit from a project to establish ecosystem-based shrimp and groundfish fisheries management in the Guianas-Brazil Shelf. The project is a joint investment by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The pilot project will be carried out as a collaboration…
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FAO presents plan for eradicating hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean
Fight against hunger and poverty on the table at the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States summit 27 January 2015, San José, Costa Rica – Today FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva presented a new regional Plan for Food Security, Nutrition and Hunger Eradication by 2025 during a summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC)…
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Agriculture Ministry Targets Banana Export Trade
KINGSTON, January 25, 2015 -As banana exports increase, the Ministry of Agriculture is moving to ensure that there is steady supply of high quality fruit for the overseas market by utilizing the agro parks as part of the process. Portfolio Minister, Hon. Derrick Kellier, speaking during a visit to the Agricultural Marketing Corporation (AMC) Complex in Kingston on Friday“We are…
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Dominica looks to France for help with banana industry
By the Caribbean Journal staff As the Eastern Caribbean continues its battle against the Black Sigatoka disease harming its banana crops, Dominica is looking abroad for help. The country announced this week that it would soon be importing Black Sigatoka-resistant banana plants from the French Caribbean to help farmers in the ongoing fight against the disease. “As we speak, the European…
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RADA Officers to be Trained in Greenhouse Production
KINGSTON, January 20, 2015- As the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) positions itself to expand the island’s agricultural productive capacity, 26 of its extension officers will be sent for training in greenhouse production techniques beginning in February. RADA’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Lenworth Fulton, said the training will boosts the agency’s competence to meet the needs of the country’s farmers,…
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Family Farming Eases Food Shortages in Eastern Cuba
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Jan 7 2015 (IPS) – Meat and vegetables are never missing from the dinner table of Damaris González and Omar Navarro, since they get almost all of their food from their farm, La Revelación, on the outskirts of the city of Santiago de Cuba, 765 km east of the Cuban capital. On the three hectares they have…
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Push for small ruminants
The production of small ruminants is poised to take off in the region and the Inter-American Institute for Co-operation on Agriculture’s Representative to Barbados and Management Co-ordinator for the Caribbean Region, Ena Harvey, believes that in Barbados, sheep in particular will be quite successful. Speaking with The Barbados Advocate recently, Harvey noted that there are a number of regional initiatives…
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Antigua Hosts National Quality Infrastructure Dialogue on Agriculture
The second national dialogue on quality infrastructure (QI) came off in Antigua last month, providing the Antigua and Barbuda Bureau of Standards (ABBS) and local officials with a clear picture of the state of the agriculture sector as relates quality and standards. Held at the Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Stadium on November 13, 2014, Director of the ABBS, Mrs. Dianne…
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Responding to climate change from the grassroots up
GUNTHORPES, Antigua, Nov 7 2014 (IPS) – As concern mounts over food security, two community groups are on a drive to mobilise average people across Antigua and Barbuda to mitigate and adapt in the wake of global climate change, which is affecting local weather patterns and by extension, agricultural production. “I want at least 10,000 people in Antigua and Barbuda…
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