Poor quality coffee delays shipments
The Coffee berry borer continues to seriously affect the island's coffee industry, causing several shipments of Blue Mountain coffee to be grounded because of poor quality. Hervin Willis, quality assurance manager at the Coffee Industry Board (CIB), has confirmed reports...
ON THE FARM - 'I want to expand my business'
Spaldings, Clarendon: For more than 25 years tilling the soil in Shooters Hill and Craighead, Manchester, has been the way of life for 50-year-old Wilbert Bailey. "I grew up seeing my father as a farmer and I just got tied up in it. I did not do any other job...
New ginger facility to open in April
A new ginger processing facility is scheduled to be commissioned into operation at Cavaliers, St.Andrew, in April. The $800,000 facility, being constructed under the supervision of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), includes a 40-foot container...
STATIN vows confidentiality
The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) is reassuring farmers that information collected for the 2007 agriculture census will be kept confidential.Valerie Nam, director of censuses, demography and social statistics at STATIN, pointed that all employees ...
MARKET Life
NAME OF VENDOR: Felix Jones YEARS AS A VENDOR: 21 MARKET: Christiana, ManchesterON SELLING FRUITS AND VEGETABLES:"I am a fruit and vegetable man. I sell cabbage, lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, cucumber, tomatoes, carrot, melon, papaya, mango...
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