Looking to promote farming and the consumption of locally sourced food, the Agriculture Department announced the start of the “Chef Del País” competition between culinary arts students that seeks chefs-in-training to prepare innovative recipes with local products. The cook-off was created in partnership with the InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico, Ana G. Méndez, ICPR Jr. […]
The Cooperative Development Commission (CDCoop) and the Department of Agriculture signed an agreement to launch a series of initiatives to promote the incorporation of agricultural cooperatives, agro-entrepreneurship and the promotion of the cooperative model among farmers on the island. The collaborative agreement signed by CDCoop Commissioner Glorimar Lamboy-Torres and Agriculture Secretary Ramón González, establishes that […]
At about 4 a.m. Christopher McGrath, a commercial fisherman from San Juan, begins to prepare his boat to go out to sea to find fresh fish. That hard work goes on for long hours until the sun goes down, where he then distributes the day’s catch to restaurants and to the public. Like him, nearly […]
The Puerto Rico Agriculture Department has extended the deadline for thousands of fishermen to complete the online application and benefit from incentives approved by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for recovery funds as a result of the pandemic, agency Secretary-designate Ramón González said. “Understanding the problems that fishermen have had to access the […]
The USDA Caribbean Climate Hub at the International Institute of Tropical Forestry, in collaboration with the Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture, developed an online tool to visualize annual agricultural production data across Puerto Rico. Climate Hub Director William Gould explained that the data displayed by the Agricultural Statistics tool is an interactive platform which shows […]
The Puerto Rico Agriculture Department will strengthen the promotion and sale of agricultural products marketed under the DelPaís brand through an agreement signed between the its Agricultural Development Innovation Fund division and Supermercados Selectos. Ruth L. Pagán, executive director of FIDA, as the division is known for its initials in Spanish, said together with Agriculture […]
The Puerto Rico Agriculture Department has allocated $1 million to create an incentive program that would help mitigate the effects the drought has had on livestock in 17 municipalities of the island. Agriculture Secretary Carlos Flores-Ortega signed an order authorizing the Agricultural Enterprises Development Administration (ADEA, for its initials in Spanish,) to create a mitigation […]
Puerto Rico Agriculture Secretary Carlos Flores-Ortega said the agency should be ready in June to submit a draft of the proposed regulations for commercial production of industrial hemp on the island. In an interview on 1140, during the “En Una Hora” program — in which News is my Business participates — the government official said […]
The Agriculture Department recognized the best farmers of the year, one from each of the agency’s eight regions, during a ceremony marking the 60th celebration of “Puerto Rican Earth Week.” “You have been selected to meet the most self-sacrificing job. What you have accomplished has taken you many years. Good and difficult,” Agriculture Secretary Carlos […]
Some 55 Agriculture Department-certified farmers have seen their sales blossom since last August, through their participation in government-sponsored “Family Markets,” held regularly throughout Puerto Rico.
With the goal of providing tools to farmers to make their work on the farm easier and faster, the Agriculture Department recently delivered 15 computers to as many local pig farmers.
U.S. Farm Credit Administration officials are on the island week to take a look at the agriculture industry and hold a series of meetings with Puerto Rico government officials to discuss the state of policies and lending programs that impact local farmers and producers. The visit is the result of a joint effort between the Agriculture Department and the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration, the agencies announced Wednesday.
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