Regional agri insurance coming
Increasingly, the cost of natural disasters on the agricultural sector in Jamaica and the region is becoming more burdensome. In a bid to lessen the impact, efforts are now underway to develop a regional agricultural insurance scheme...
Rennie Larmond: I love farming
Malvern, St. Elizabeth: Rennie Larmond, 48, used to wire houses for electricity, but the former electrician turned farmer, is now transferring that energy to the soil. Mr. Larmond told Farmers Weekly that his former job of installing electrical...
Over 400 graduate Case
Just over 400 students graduated from the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) recently. This represents an 18.3 per cent increase in the number of students who graduated from the institution the previous academic year....
Frome kicks off sugar crop
The Frome sugar factory in Westmoreland began sugar production last Wednesday, signalling the start of the 2006/07 sugar crop in which the country is expected to produce 160,000 tonnes of sugar overall.
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