Market Access to More Countries for Various Agricultural Products  

• More local fruits and ground provisions will be able to reach international shores, as Jamaica now has export market access to several additional countries. Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Mining, Hon. Floyd Green, said among these is Barbados for pineapples.
• He informed that the country is now allowed to export frozen cake, soursop, sweetsop, breadfruit, plantain, yam, sweet and irish potato to Cayman.
• The Minister was speaking during the recent launch of the 2023 Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial, and Food Show at Hi-Pro Ace Supercentre in St. Catherine.
• Green further advised that they have been working with Trinidad and Tobago where they now can export bananas and have been working with the United States of America (USA), where they are now able to export June plum and soursop. He commended the Plant Quarantine and Produce Inspection team for their role in achieving the feat.
• Noting that these markets are of “high value”, he urged producers must make use of the new opportunities.
• Green maintained that the nation “must be bullish about exports”, pointing out that this is how the country will realize wealth creation in agriculture, and despite being a small country, Jamaica has an immense reach.

(Source: JIS News)