by Julie Carrington | Apr 17, 2018 | Ministry News
The Barbados Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (BADMC) has allocated lands and will be providing some land preparation skills to graduates of the Youth in Agriculture Programme (YAIP) at no cost. Project Coordinator with the YAIP, Kareem Payne made...
by Julie Carrington | Apr 3, 2018 | Ministry News
Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Fisheries and Water Resource Management, Manasseh King, is appealing to lending agencies to relax their requirements and give agri-preneurs a chance. He made this request last Wednesday while addressing...
by Julie Carrington | Mar 29, 2018 | banner, Top Stories
The Barbados Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation’s (BADMC), existing national cassava value chain programme is in for a big boost. That is because the BADMC, with assistance from the Food and Agriculture Organization, will be establishing a...
by Julie Carrington | Sep 20, 2017 | Ministry News
The Ministry of Agriculture is now accepting applications for the intake of students for Cohort 5 of the Youth Agri-preneurship Incubator Programme (YAIP). The YAIP is a scientific and technological intensive training programme which is geared towards preparing...
by Theresa Blackman | Oct 18, 2016 | Top Stories
Minister of Agriculture, Dr. David Estwick, has warned that if Barbados does not place more emphasis on producing its own food, it will be forced to rely on costly imports, therefore putting its own food security and labour force at risk. He made these comments over...