KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) President Lenworth Fulton says the restructuring of individual commodity boards have stunted critical research activities in the sector.
Addressing the Yam Farmer's Biotechnology Workshop recently at Northern Caribbean University (NCU) in Mandeville, Fulton asserted that the 2018 combining of all agricultural commodity boards into the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulation Authority (JACRA) has negatively impacted agricultural research.
“We will have to work with the universities and the extension arm of the Rural Agriculture Development Authority (RADA),” he told yam farmers during the meeting which was under the theme, 'Taking biotechnology to farmers for sustainable yam production”.
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Published on 11 Dec, 2019
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