Minister Green wants chicken parts import report by next month jamaicaobserver.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jamaicaobserver.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The wave of farmers market which flooded the country in the first quarter of the country, including innovations such as the Drive-Thru Farmers’ Market at the Agricultural Marketing Corporation (AMC) at 188 Spanish Town Road, has practically dried up and some farmers are hurting.
Agro-Investment Corporation (AIC), which hosted that event in April, got high marks for its packaged deals which saw combinations of fresh vegetables, fruits and produce, priced at $1,000 and $1,500, as excellent deals for consumers, who were spared the hassle of going to the market. The Ministry of Agriculture also hosted a number of farmers’ markets at the playfield at the its Hope Gardens head office, St Andrew, and various association of branch societies of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) also got in the act, all across country.
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Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Floyd Green has charged local feed manufacturers to engage with local scientists to fast-track research on finding local substitutes for animal feeds, the input for which is largely imported.
The minister, who was delivering the keynote address at the donation of 20,000 baby chicks and 25 tonnes, or 1,000 bags, of broiler feed with a combined value of $4,215,000 by the Jamaica Broilers Group at its corporate suite in McCook’s Pen, St Catherine, said COVID strictures had brought this shortcoming to the fore.
“There may be events that cause significant breaks in our supply chain, there may be events that cause the closure of our borders. If that happens and all the feed that we give to our prize chickens are imported, then how do we go forward?” he asked.
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