KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Jamaica's coffee farmers are now one step closer to effective crop insurance coverage, based on an agreement signed today by Agriculture Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton; ...

Jamaica’s 154,000 smallholder farmers occupy the majority of the country’s agricultural land area (440,000 hectares) and are the backbone of the Caribbean country’s agriculture sector. They are ...

Jamaica is staking its claim in the future of another locally grown crop by embedding a QR code authentication system for bottled castor oil. Minister of Agriculture Floyd Green framed the initiative ...

“Agricultural industry actors in Jamaica face issues with accessing credit facilities from traditional financial institutions at affordable rates due to a lack of collateral, lack of structured ...

Although national poverty rates in Jamaica declined from 30.4 % in 1989 to 9.9 % in 2007, the decline in rural poverty was more modest: from 22 % to 15.3 %. If Jamaica was to achieve “Developed ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Roger Clarke, a Jamaican government minister whose affable personality often bridged the Caribbean island’s deep political divide, died Thursday in Florida. He was 74. The ...