PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), Lenworth Fulton is urging Jamaicans to make every effort to plant more fruit trees. According to Fulton, as a tropical island and one blessed ...

INDUSTRY, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Audley Shaw says an aggressive fruit tree planting programme will be implemented over the next five years. As part of this initiative, ...

The ackee tree, native to West Africa, grows in abundance on Jamaica, where it’s likewise celebrated as the national fruit. However, ackee fruit imports have been banned by the FDA , off and on ...

The answer is embedded in the country’s history of slavery. Ackee is a voluptuous, red-skinned fruit related to the lychee that is native to Ghana.

IN connection with the article by Dr. Morris on a Jamaica drift fruit, which appeared in NATURE of November 21, 1895, I am able to supplement it by a record of the tree in Trinidad. On March 10 ...

The ambarella fruit tree is very popular in the tropical regions of Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Jamaica, and Barbados. It not only makes a great addition to a landscape but ...