Agriculture Minister Ezechiel Joseph has vowed that as long as the United Workers Party (UWP) forms the Government of Saint Lucia, the diplomatic status Saint Lucia has with the Republic of China (Tai...
The potential risk posed to Jamaica’s banana and plantain crops as a result of the emergence of the deadly Tropical Race Four (TR4) disease in the Western Hemisphere, has forced the Jamaican Governmen...
Amidst ongoing cooperation from the Government of Taiwan to sustain growth within the agriculture sector, Minister for Agriculture, Hon. Ezechiel Joseph said efforts by the ministry to improve the int...
Banana farmers in Saint Lucia are complaining bitterly that the recent implementation of a quota system by Winfresh for the purchasing of their bananas is affecting their livelihood. And as a resul...
Information is being disseminated by a local talk show host falsely suggests that Winfresh has not been facilitating the trial shipment of bananas from Saint Lucia to the French market and that it is,...
"We need a better arrangement from Winfresh that will enable us to sell all our bananas!" That’s the anguished cry of banana farmers around the island as they brace themselves for possible tou...
A banana farmer, who has found a new niche, is now one of the biggest livestock farmers in the island. “Livestock farming is more beneficially to me than banana farming. I am doing better rearing g...
A little over one year since the Banana Productivity Improvement Project came into operation, banana production and exports are on the rebound, so said Project Manager for the Banana Productivity Impr...
An effort is being made to save the carton manufacturing plant in St. Lucia and the jobs of its employees as the banana industry moves to switch from transporting the fruit in cardboard boxes to plast...
Taiwanese ambassador H. E. Douglas Shen and Hon. Ezechiel Joseph, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries, Physical Planning, Natural Resources and Co-operatives, signed a new action plan on bilateral agr...