– The Gleaner As crop and livestock production and productivity across the country continue to be negatively affected by a prolonged drought, two of the farmers who took top honours at the 2014 staging of the annual Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show are confident going into this year’s show, set for July 31 to...
– The Gleaner Traditionally, when you think of farming or activities associated with farming, what comes to mind? We bet nothing as glamorous as what was displayed at the National Farm Queen competition on the opening night of Denbigh 2015. The National Farm Queen competition, which celebrated its 52nd staging on Friday, is a pageant...
– The Gleaner The Dairy Development Board has got private sector buy-in for its latest drive to revive the industry under a new campaign dubbed ‘Drink Real Milk.’ Its three partners — Seprod, the CB Group through its Nutramix subsidiary, and fertiliser company Newport Fersan Jamaica — will now pump capital and technical expertise into...
Through the efforts of its four key stakeholders — the Caribbean Broilers Group (through Nutramix), Newport-Fersan Jamaica Limited, Seprod (through Serge Island) and the Jamaica Dairy Development Board — the campaign is targeted at reviving what was once a thriving industry in Jamaica. The campaign, which was officially launched yesterday at the Terra Nova Hotel...
CB Group Reduces Prices Again For the second time this year, CB Group reduces prices of locally produced goods. Effective April 20th, 2015, the company will lower its prices, right across the board, for all their business lines, which includes their flagship brand in the CB Foods division – CB Chicken, their fresh pork line...
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Roger Clarke, says the production of sorghum in Jamaica augurs well for the future of the agriculture industry. He said that large scale cultivation of the crop will boost the livestock industry and also assist in reducing the sector’s almost $2 billion per year import bill. “We want to...
Caribbean Producers experiments with replacing corn with sorghum HILL RUN, St Catherine:THE CARIBBEAN Broilers Group is banking on the use of sorghum as a substitute for imported yellow corn, a major ingredient and high-cost factor in its line of Nutramix animal feeds manufactured at Newport Mills. Agriculture Minister Roger Clarke on Thursday toured the experimental...
Newport Mills upgrades and invests to serve Caribbean area Investing more than US$10 million over the past five years ensured that Nutramix feeds, the brand name for feeds from Newport Mills in Jamaica, are produced in an ultra-modern, ultra-safe facility. The company intends to grow in the market and be able to export to surrounding...
Newport Mills Ltd, a Nutramix animal feed manufacturer, is ahead of the game when international safety ratings are concerned. The company, based in Kingston, has just rounded off its first year of production, supplying Jamaica and the Caribbean. Investments totalling more than US$10 million over a five year period, and a strong quality management system,...
World Quality Day (WQD) is celebrated to promote the importance of quality to the sustainability of private and public sector entities and the prosperity of individuals.
