cassava
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Caribbean specialists acquire new expertise for adding value to cassava
A meeting supported by IICA, the European Union, and Colombia’s Presidential Agency for International Cooperation enabled specialists engaged in promoting the crop to learn about new forms of marketing that could boost markets for the product. na, Grenada, and Barbados, while the Latin American nations taking part were Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Officials from Colombia’s…
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Jamaica expanding cassava industry with help from Colombia
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Tuesday August 4, 2015 – Government is moving to expand the cassava industry through partnerships with the private sector and the University of the West Indies, with support from the Colombian government. Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, said the partnership between government and the manufacturer of Jamaican beer Red Stripe, which is using the tuber as part of its…
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FAO promoting cassava root as a food crop in Caribbean
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, March 15, 2015—The Food and Agriculture Organization’s Sub-Regional Office for the Caribbean is intensifying its promotion of the cassava root as a food crop in the region. The FAO is using opportunities such as the recent Barbados Agrofest to dispel myths associated with the cassava, and to promote its wide-ranging health benefits and diversity in food use. Cassava,…
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FAO invests in developing Caribbean cassava industry
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — Addressing agricultural revitalization and the high food import bill are two of the major challenges facing the countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Over the past ten years, the food import bill has doubled to almost US$4 billion, with 11% being spent on just two commodities – corn and wheat. At the same time, land…
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Government to adopt Red Stripe technology in Cassava Production
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Nov. 4, 2014 – Government will shortly be adopting the technology used by Red Stripe in its large-scale cassava production, so that an islandwide cassava industry can be sustained as the technology being being utilized is delivering the kind of yields that will make the industry economical. Minister of Agriculture, Derrick Kellier pointed out that with the Red…
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