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Lenworth Fulton Agriculture 03 February 2025

JAMAICA | From Agricultural Excellence to Sewage Plans: Bodles Research Station Faces Existential Threat

KINGSTON, Jamaica, February 2, 2025 - By Lenworth Fulton - As CARICOM nations race to reduce regional food import bills by 25 percent by 2025, Jamaica's premier agricultural research facility faces a crisis that could undermine these ambitious goals.

Lenworth Fulton Agriculture 03 February 2025

JAMAICA | From Agricultural Excellence to Sewage Plans: Bodles Research Station Faces Existential Threat

AFRICA | A Kenyan Community's Fight to Take Back Its Lipton Tea Estates

NAIROBI, Kenya — A community-led consortium in Kenya’s tea-growing region is fighting to stop a global private equity firm selling the renowned Lipton tea estates to a Sri Lankan conglomerate...

Martin K.N Siele - Semafor Africa Agriculture 11 August 2024

JAMAICA Seems Blind to CARICOM’s Food Import Reduction Vision

Kingston, Jamaica, April 24, 2024 - Jamaica cannot afford to be out of step with the CARICOM Agri-Food Systems Agenda aimed at addressing the region’s food security challenges and rising...

Lenworth Fulton Agriculture 25 April 2024

JAMAICA | The Need to Capitalise Jamaica’s Agricultural sector

KINGSTON, Jamaica, April 18, 2024 - In a compelling discourse that spotlights the undercurrents of financial challenges beleaguering Jamaica's agricultural sector, Lenworth Fulton, the President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society...

WiredJA News Team Agriculture 20 April 2024

CUBA Embraces Eco-Farming Amid Tightened US Blockade

HAVANA, Cuba, November 23, 2022 - TeleSURCuban farmers are increasingly adopting ecological farming methods as the U.S. trade embargo continues to restrict the country's access to chemical fertilizers in the...

WiredJA News Team Agriculture 25 November 2022

Samuda rejects workers’ abuse claims on Canadian farms

Montreal, Canada August 28, 2022 - – Complaints by Jamaican farm workers in Canada that they are being forced to work in conditions akin to systematic slavery,has been rejected by ...

WiredJA News Team Agriculture 28 August 2022

BARBADOS/GUYANA food terminal soon to be constructed in St. Michael

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, May 29, 2022 - Work is expected to begin within another few weeks on the Construction of the Guyana-Barbados Food Terminal in Lears, St Michael, Barbados.

WiredJA News Team Agriculture 30 May 2022

BARBADOS/GUYANA cooperation, a model for other CARICOM States – President Ali

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, May 29, 2022 - The partnership between Guyana and Barbados sets a model for other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) states to follow, to achieve food security and confront some...

WiredJA News Team Agriculture 30 May 2022

CARICOM Heads mobilize to cut agricultural imports by 25% by 2025

MONTEGO BAY, MAY 22, 2022 - As the topic of Regional Food Security takes primary focus within the Caribbean Community, a one week Agri-Investment Forum and Expo hosted by the...

WiredJA News Team Agriculture 22 May 2022

GUYANA | Reducing Region's Food import by 25% by 2025 is Realistic says Irfaan Ali

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, May 20, 2022 - Guyana's President, Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali says the vision of reducing CARICOM’s food import bill by 25 percent by 2025 is “very realistic”, and...

WiredJA News Team Agriculture 21 May 2022

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JAMAICA | From Agricultural Excellence to Sewage Plans: Bodles Research Station Faces Existential Threat

AFRICA | A Kenyan Community's Fight to Take Back Its Lipton Tea Estates

JAMAICA Seems Blind to CARICOM’s Food Import Reduction Vision

JAMAICA | The Need to Capitalise Jamaica’s Agricultural sector

CUBA Embraces Eco-Farming Amid Tightened US Blockade

Samuda rejects workers’ abuse claims on Canadian farms

BARBADOS/GUYANA food terminal soon to be constructed in St. Michael

BARBADOS/GUYANA cooperation, a model for other CARICOM States – President Ali

CARICOM Heads mobilize to cut agricultural imports by 25% by 2025

GUYANA | Reducing Region's Food import by 25% by 2025 is Realistic says Irfaan Ali

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