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Yam Export Committee (YAMEX): Preliminary report
(IICA, 05-1988)
The document indicates that the Yam Export Committee (YAMEX) was created to recommend a strategy for increasing local and overseas promotion, production and marketing of yams for the smallscale farm sector, particularly ...
The social dynamics of on-farm adaptive research
(IICA, 12-1993)
The paper gives some guidelines of how to conduct interviews with farmers in order to create an atmosphere in which the researcher and farmer can work for each other's benefit. This requirement is essential in the cases ...
A roadbed for Jamaica's agricultural export development
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 12-1994)
The document explains that the agriculture needs to be reestructured in order to promote and diversify exports. It reccapitulates the status of Jamaica's agriculture and its exports. A strategy Tropical boutique agriculture ...
Cost of production of food crops: portland
(IICA, 12-1994)
The costs presented in this publication correspond to the costs of labour and inputs directly used in the production of the crop (variable cost).
Hillside Agriculture Sub-Project baseline survey results
(IICA, 12-1994)
Cuadros
The purpose of this report is to provide information to extension officers, researchers, project implementors and policy-markers on the economic viability of mixed cropping systems. In so doing, it will list the ...
Starting and financing a small business in Jamaica: a guide
(IICA, 1986)
Manual para el desarrollo y manejo de la pequeña empresa o negocio, dirigido a personas o grupos con interés de iniciarse en esa escala de la actividad económica. Asimismo, el Manual constituye un instrumento de apoyo para ...
Vegetable Production Programme-Brumdec Third Quarterly Report
(IICA, 1982)
El presente documento es un informe que presenta un paquete de prácticas agrícolas en vegetales recomendadas. También se formulan recomendaciones sobre las áreas de investigación futura.
An imperative for Caribbean agricultural development: boutique agriculture
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The desire to develop strategies tailored to foreseeable situations to contrast adverse effects and promote growth and development is emphasized. In this context the agricultural sector and its modernization has ...
Jamaica's hillside agriculture: an environmental endowment
(IICA, 09-1994)
This paper discusses how Jamaica's hillside agriculture conceptually interfaces development and sustainability issues. Additionally, this farming systems in a fragile ecosystem is an environmental endowmen. It is anticipated ...
IICA action strategy in Jamaica: 1990-1991
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 1991)
The document refers to the overall strategy for the 1990-1991 biennium: a) to assist the Government of Jamaica in bringing Jamaican back to its pre-Hurricane Gilbert level of development, while at the same time developing, ...