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Pimento : the Jamaican allspice story
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 2013)
This book is on Pimento otherwise known to the spice world as Jamaican Allspice, one of Jamaica’s oldest export commodities. It is the most informative and comprehensive book to be written on the subject and the most recent ...
Effect of organic matter in a recovered bauxite soil in Jamaica
(2017)
The powerful role of Organic Matter in recovering degraded lands is documented in Jamaica, bringing life back to farming areas where mining was once practiced.
Jamaica's hillside agriculture: an environmental endowment
(IICA, 09-1994)
This paper discusses how Jamaica's hillside agriculture conceptually interfaces development and sustainability issues. Additionally, this farming systems in a fragile ecosystem is an environmental endowmen. It is anticipated ...
Towards administrative excellence: consolidating efficiency and effectiveness
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 1989)
The third administrative retreat of the IICA Office in Jamaica focused on moving Towards administrative excellence: consolidating efficiency and effectiveness, thereby building upon the improvements projected by the first ...
Marketing Jamaican small business products: a guide
(IICA, 12-1986)
The document is a simplified guide to marketing small business products, intended for micro-entrepreneurs who want to learn about markerting, but find existing material too difficult. It was also prepared for trainers ...
Farm record keeping
(IICA, 1991)
The publication of this series of training manuals is for the purpose of contribuitng to the improvement of farm management skills of small farmers in Jamaica. Those intersted in expansing the information for training ...
Economic assessment of different technological packages in yellow yam production
(IICA, 01-1996)
7 tablas
The study presents a general portrait of five diverse technological packages, and for each account income and cost of production schedules (listing all labour and material costs)
Project documemt: support for the generation and transfer of agricultural technology in Jamaica
(IICA, 10-1989)
The specific objective of the project is to strengthen the Ministry of Agriculture's (MINAG) institutional capability for generating and transferring technologies that are acceptable to small-scalle farmers.
Income generation by rural women: creating an integrated system to support self-managed labour intensive production projects
(IICA, 1986)
This document describes the methodology used in the Dominican Republic with initial funding from PACT (Private Agencies Collaborating Together) and the Dominican Government. The programme began in 1977 with a loan to a ...
Proceedings of the workshop: Network of Agricultural Information and Documentation Units in Jamaica
(IICA, 1999)
This document explains Jamaica has the capacity to improve in its provision of agricultural information services and products, however integration of the information units in the agricultural sector based on improved ...