Jamaica Had Second-Highest Domestic Crop Production in 2023

• Jamaica produced some 779,254 tonnes of domestic crops in 2023, which is the country’s second-highest recorded production figure. In making the disclosure, Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Hon. Franklin Witter, said that this was achieved despite unfavourable weather conditions.
• “Jamaica, like the rest of the world, experienced one of the hottest years ever recorded last year. Consequently, the drought, as well as the short period of intense rainfall that we experienced, did have some impact on our productivity here in Jamaica,” he said.
• Witter was addressing the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) 41st Annual National Farmers’ Month church service held at the Kettering Baptist church in Duncans, Trelawny, on Sunday (April 7).
• “Our strategic vision is embedded in our New FACE of Food strategy, and this is an acronym for a strategic layout of food security, agro-business development, climate-change technologies, and export expansion,” he noted.

(Source: JIS)