Drought affects scallion
MALVERN, St. Elizabeth: A DROUGHT now affecting sections of St. Elizabeth has resulted in a shortage of scallion in the markets. Vendors who sell in the Christiana and Spaldings markets in Manchester and Clarendon respectively say they have been unable...
Plantain production increase
ANNOTTO BAY, St. Mary: Plantain production in St. Mary has seen a significant increase with the success of the St. Mary Plantain and Marketing Production Project which has been supplying 275 ñ 500 kilograms of ripe plantains...
Agri export, marketing to merge
CREATING A central marketing agency to boost export sales, expanding the production of fruit tree crops, transferring technology to improve crop production and lobbying the Government to remove the General Consumption Tax (GCT)...
Rules for safe and effective use of pesticide
1. Follow Good Farm Practice (GFP), Use all non-pesticide tools that reduce pest attacks. These include proper land preparation, planting time, resistant varieties, drainage, field sanitation, crop rotation.....
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