1.

UWI PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE FIELD OF AGRICULTURE AS IT

EDUCATED STUDENTS ON THE WIDE SUBJECT. UWI HAS A LONG
HISTORY OF TEAHING, RESEARCH AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES IN AGRI.
THE SCHOOL IS COMMITTED TO SOLVING AGRI. AND ENV PROBLEMS.
2. CASE PLAYS AN IMPORTAMT ROLE IN AGRI. AS IT IS A
MULTIDISCIPLINARY INSTITUTION COMMITED TO PROVIDING THE BEST
QUALITY IN AGRI SCI. THRIUGH TECHING RESEARCH AND OUTREACH
The College intends to promote and foster the development of individuals who
are professionally qualified, articulate, culturally aware, environmentally and
health conscious, morally sensitive, ethically motivated and service oriented and
in so doing, respond to the needs of Jamaica and the region for persons
dedicated to excellence and to increased productivity in their chosen fields.
The College is geared towards the development of efficient, skilled and highly
competent graduates whose creative, entrepreneurial potential and desire to
respond to the challenges of nation building, have been developed. The College
is committed to the task of producing graduates who are ready to assume
leadership roles in Agriculture, Science, Education and allied disciplines in
Jamaica and globally
3. Much of RADA's day-to-day extension services are carried out by its parish
offices. These thirteen parish offices, one located in each parish except Kingston,
have a pulse on the activities on each farm in the country and the specific needs
of farmers. How are they able to do this? Each parish office has field officers
attached to them. By dividing up the parishes into extension areas and assigning
officers to monitor each extension area, RADA ensures that it has every
Jamaican farmer covered.
Field officers are both educators and mediators. Educators because they teach
farmers how best to deal with their specific Agriculture needs, forwarding a given
matter to of a RADA Agriculture Specialist if necessary, and monitor the farmers'
progress in employing the skills taught. Through its extension services, RADA's
aim is to ensure that Jamaica's Agriculture sector is not just kept alive, but
continues to grow and develop.
4. CDB the combination of risks associated with adverse weather systems and
other challenges, had made agriculture susceptible to high levels of losses
transmitted throughout the value chain, to the distribution of trade and the
financial institutions.
5. CFNI - The institute aims to attain food security and achieve optimal nutritional
health for all peoples of the Caribbean through collaboration with Caribbean
countries to enhance, describe, manage and prevent the key nutritional problems
and to increase their capacity in providing effective nutritional services. CFNI
collaborates closely with CARICOM secretariat in ongoing efforts to improve the
quality of life in the Caribbean.

6. FAO is promoting conservation agriculture to achieve sustainable and profitable

agriculture and protect the environment at the same time. Conservation
agriculture uses progressive techniques including zero or minimum tillage, direct
seeding, intensive crop rotation and continuous soil cover to protect the land from

sun, wind and rain. Increased organic matter in the soil provides greater
resilience to drought and enhances responses to mineral fertilizers.
CARDI roles :

1. to provide for the research and development needs of the agriculture of the
Region as identified in national plans and policies;
2. to provide an appropriate research and development service to the agricultural
sector of Member States;
3. to provide and extend the application of new technologies in production,
processing, storage and distribution of agricultural products of Member States;
4. to pursue for specified periods long-term research in pertinent areas;
5. to provide for the co-ordination and integration of the research and development
efforts of Member States where this is possible and desirable
The implementation of these actions places emphasis on the generation of appropriate
technology products and services in areas of:
6. Post harvest (including cleaning, storage, sorting, packaging)
7. Improved/state of the art analytical and storage equipment, capacity building etc.