A allotment of organically developed broccoli.
Alessandro Boyd, Gleaner Writer
Raymond Martin, broker of the Jamaica Amoebic Agronomics Movement (JOAM), has declared that a college akin of abundance in the breadth of amoebic agronomics is bare in Jamaica.
It is with this in apperception that the organisation is staging the first-ever Amoebic October in Jamaica.
The JOAM is a non-governmental organisation. Its capital activities accommodate lobbying and acceptable in the development of a bounded amoebic agronomics industry.
The assignment is monitored and agitated out by the controlling anatomy and by associates of bounded groups that are anchored beyond the island. Individuals may participate by demography allotment in the activities in their bristles regions.
JOAM's mission
"The mission of JOAM is to facilitate the development of the amoebic industry in Jamaica. One of the things we recognised this year was that we absolutely had to accept a aeon breadth we showcased organics, and that is how Amoebic October came about," Martin told The Gleaner.
Martin declared that, back JOAM was founded in 2001, it has formed with several agencies such as the Rural Agricultural Development Authority, and accomplished several bodies throughout the parishes in the breadth of amoebic farming.
ORGANIC FARMING METHODS
"Organic agronomics methods action the best, currently available, applied archetypal for acclamation climate-friendly aliment production. This is because it is beneath abased on oil-based fertilisers and pesticides, and confers animation in the face of acute extremes," said Dorienne Campbell, administrator of the organisation.
Martin went on to highlight some of the industries that can account from amoebic products.
"For one, there is the breadth of tourism, as there are bodies advancing to Jamaica assured amoebic foods. However, the hotels are importing them in abounding instances. That should not be the case," he said.
"There are additionally instances breadth the doctors are advising their patients to stop bistro foods that are developed with pesticides.
