Jamaica agriculture

A performance audit of Jamaica’s Production Incentive Programme has exposed a $2.941 billion agricultural support initiative riddled with weak internal controls, politically influenced beneficiary selections, and a complete failure to demonstrate res

Jamaica’s farm road network — the arteries that carry food from field to market and sustain the livelihoods of thousands of rural families — has been the subject of a damning performance audit revealing that nearly J$2 billion in public funds produce

United Fruit Company seized millions of Jamaican acres by 1900. Banana overtook sugar as Jamaica’s defining agricultural export crop. Peasant…