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To create an enabling environment which grows and sustains industries in agriculture, fisheries, manufacturing and service sectors; advance standards; and ensure food & nutrition security, food safety and consumer protection

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  15 September 2018

  Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), Hon. Audley Shaw (centre), in discussion with representatives of the Caribbean Development Bank and the National Irrigation Commission, during a courtesy call at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices, on Friday, September 14, 2018. The Essex Valley Agriculture Development and the South St Catherine and Clarendon Agricultural and Development Project were discussed at the meeting.

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  15 September 2018

  Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), converses with Head of Infrastructure Partnerships, Agriculture and Rural Development, Caribbean Development Bank, Andrew Dupigny, during a courtesy call at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices, on Friday, September 14, 2018. The Essex Valley Agriculture Development and the South St Catherine and Clarendon Agricultural and Development Project were discussed at the meeting.

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  15 September 2018

  Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), Hon. Audley Shaw (centre), in dialogue with (from left) Senior Operations Officer, Office of the Vice President, Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Luther St. Ville; and Head of Infrastructure Partnerships, Agriculture and Rural Development, CDB, Andrew Dupigny; Acting Permanent Secretary Andrene Collings and Principal Director, MICAF, Shaun Baugh, during a courtesy call at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices, on Friday, September 14, 2018. The Essex Valley Agriculture Development and the South St Catherine and Clarendon Agricultural and Development Project were discussed at the meeting.

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  15 September 2018

  Residents of Monymusk enthusiastically welcome the Hon Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, to the groundbreaking ceremony for the development of Monymusk Glades in Clarendon on September 12. The development is a joint venture between NHT and SCJ Holdings and involves the construction of 84 serviced lots, 50 of which will be assigned to current and former sugar workers.

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  15 September 2018

  Director of SCJ Holdings Limited (SCJH), Horace Charoo, in discussion with , SCJ Holdings’ Vivian Brown, Chief Executive Officer, and Kerline Graham: Human Resource/ Community Relations Manager, at the groundbreaking ceremony for the development of 84 serviced lots at Monymusk Glades in Clarendon on September 12.

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  15 September 2018

  From left, Hon Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Member of Parliament for Clarendon South Eastern, Hon. Rudyard Spencer; Hon Karl Samuda, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Board Chairman, National Housing Trust, Lennox Channer; and Director, SCJ Holdings Limited (SCJH), Horace Charoo, in discussion at the groundbreaking ceremony for the development of 84 serviced lots at Monymusk Glades in Clarendon on September 12.

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  15 September 2018

  Dean Avril, Chief Executive Officer of the Jamaica Dairy Development Board conducting at a Silage Making and Packaging Workshop at the Bodles Research station in St. Catherine on September 12, where a silo-packer machine was handed over by the Ja REEACH 11 Project to the JDDB . The silage packing machine will be used across Jamaica to provide dairy farmers with access to silage to ensure feed material will always be available.

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  15 September 2018

  Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon Audley Shaw (right) greets President of the Serge Island Small Dairy Farmers Benevolent Society Harvel Knight at the handover of a silo packer machine by the Ja REEACH 11 Project to the Jamaica Dairy Development Board (JDDB), held at Bodles Research Station in St. Catherine on September 12. The silage packing machine will be used across Jamaica to provide dairy farmers with access to silage to ensure feed material will always be available.

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  15 September 2018

  Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon Audley Shaw (3rd left), sprays the first bag of silage packaged by the silo packer machine at the handover of the machine by the Ja REEACH 11 Project to the Jamaica Dairy Development Board (JDDB), held at Bodles Research Station in St. Catherine on September 12. Others from left are Karyll Aitcheson, Chief of Party, Ja REEACH 11 Project; Dr Lisa Myers-Morgan, Principal Research Director, Research and Development Division, Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries; JDDB’s Everton Parks, Farming Systems Specialist; and Dean Avril, Chief Executive Officer.

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  15 September 2018

  Nicolette Evans, Project Manager, Cane Expansion Fund, speaking at the 3rd SIA Post Crop Seminar held at the Authority’s Research Division in Mandeville on September 13. An overview of the Cane Expansion Fund, Standards, Packaging, Regulations and Sugar and Health were among the topics discussed at the seminar.

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  15 September 2018

  Chief Executive Officer of the Sugar Industry Authority, George Callaghan, responding to query made by Andrew Hopwood (standing), farm manager at Worthy Park Estate, at the 3rd SIA Post Crop Seminar held at the Authority’s Research Division in Mandeville on September 13.

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  15 September 2018

  Chairman of the Sugar Industry Authority (SIA), Phillip Henriques (left) speaking with the Hon. Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, at the 3rd SIA Post Crop Seminar held at the Authority’s Research Division in Mandeville on September 13.

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  15 September 2018

  Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon. Audley Shaw, addressing sugar industry stakeholders at the 3rd SIA Post Crop Seminar held at the Authority’s Research Division in Mandeville on September 13.

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  14 September 2018

  Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), Hon. Audley Shaw (2nd left), in discussion with (from left) President, Jamaica Employer’s Federation (JEF), David Wan; Acting Permanent Secretary at MICAF, Andrene Collings; and Chief Executive Officer, Jamaica Employers’ Federation, Brenda V. Cuthbert, during a courtesy call at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices, on Thursday, September 13, 2018. Some of the matters discussed at the meeting included partnership between the JEF and MICAF, programmes to build institutional capacity for farmers, sensitizing farmers in labour laws, utilization of idle lands, praedial larceny and agro-processing.

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  14 September 2018

  Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), converses with President, Jamaica Employers’ Federation (JEF), David Wan, during a courtesy call at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices, on Thursday, September 13, 2018. Some of the matters discussed at the meeting included partnership between the JEF and MICAF, programmes to build institutional capacity for farmers, sensitizing farmers in labour laws, utilization of idle lands, praedial larceny and agro-processing.

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