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Agriculture Policy Programme Caribbean Action: Jamaica, country update
(2016)
The Update highlights contributions of the APP from actions under the Scale Down Work Plan, that were grounded in-country with direct benefits to local stakeholders.
Investigating Critical Levels of Dry Rotting of Yellow Yam (Dioscorea Cayenesis) Planing Material, the Benefits of Disinfesting the Heads of Pratylechus Coffeae and of After-Planing Nematicide Treatments
Several noxious nematodes are associated with yams in Jamaica but Pratylenchus coffea is the only one found infesting yellow yam tubers affected by a dry rot called "burning".
There was significantly less bearing plants ...
Programme of Work to Establish Guidelines for the Effective Administrative, Operation and Maintenance of the Irrigation and Drainage District in the BRUMEDEC PROJECT
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 1981)
The programme of work aims at establishing whether or not additional watercontrol structures will be needed to effectively control irrigation and drainage for different types of crops in the projects area, and also for the ...
Country Level Action Plan
(IICA, 1981)
The Country Level Action Plan (CLAP) is intended to systematize and place in ordinal perspective the agricultural situation in a country, as a basis for determining programmes and projects for IICA's involvement in each ...
A goat agroforestry production system for Jamaica A goat agroforestry production system for Jamaica
(1999)
This document explains on goats are one of the traditional animals of Jamaica agriculture and the majority of goat production in Jamaica takes place on small farms. Unfortunately, the methods of goat production in Jamaica ...
Under-Employment its Relation to the Agricultural Sector and Considerations for its Measurement in Jamaica
Under-employment is disguised by social systems wich "protect" and "carry" the unemployed as under-employed. This is particularly the case with family agricultural plots. In this sense, under-employment is especially typical ...
Proceedings of the workshop Workshop Strategies for Strengthening Micro-Enterprises for Rural Women
(IICA, 1999)
This document explains the Jamaica network of rural women producers is to be part of a regional and hemispheric programme which came as a result of year of commitment on the part of the First Ladies of Latin American and ...
On-farm fertilizer trials of ackee Blighia sapida Koening, with small hillside farmers in the parish of St. Catherine
(IICA, 1994)
This report provides a description and analysis of an on-farm fertilizer trial of ackee, Blighia sapida Koening, outplanted in October, 1992, at an elevation of 290m above sea level in the community of Hampshire, Parish ...
The experiences of Jamaica in the Management of Agricultural Production on Hillsides
(IICA, 1981)
The project is aimed at increasing production and productivity of hillside lands through application of structured multiple-cropping systems and intensive of cultivation of appropriately conserved lands.
El proyecto ...
Training for transformation: leadership, negotiation team-building
(IICA, 1999)
In this documento explains. The point of departure of the workshop was the new corporate plan of the JAS, whith emphasizes institutional modernization, collective action and incorporation of new technologies in its programme ...