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The Natural Products Institute

The Natural Products Institute, The University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona will host a workshop on Composting and the use of Agricultural and Agro-industrial Waste at Mona from April 24 to 26.  The three-day workshop is being organised in collaboration with the Canadian Regional Programme for Economic Competitiveness; the Ridge to Reef Watershed Project and the Jamaica Organic Agricultural Movement. The workshop is being conducted by Professor P. Agamathu from the University of Malaya, an expert in the field.  He has written a manual on the subject which will be used in the workshop and presented to participants.  Persons attending will come from the Sugar, Banana and Coffee industries, as well as agro-processors of products such as ackee and pimento leaf oil.  The workshop will be both theoretical and practical as participants will use demonstration plots at UWI, Mona and visit the Bernard Lodge Sugar Estate.


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