The Agro Investment Corporation (Amendment) Act

Date

Creating a more efficient and effective public sector by merging public bodies that share synergies of functions and resources.
Agricultural and investment facilitation advisory and management.
Business facilitation with a focus on agricultural investment, promotion and facilitation, project development and market development.

General Objectives

Strengthen the AIC by increasing its membership and diversifying the qualifications and skill sets of the members.
To organise and train farmers and technical personnel.
Empowering the AIC to mobilise and manage a pool of funds to be used to enhance the competitiveness of Jamaican agriculture in the domestic and global markets.
identification of opportunities through feasibility studies, due diligence and business planning, project management, long-term business performance monitoring and technical support.
modernise the institutional infrastructure to support the agriculture sector and, farmers.
to provide grants for projects in the non traditional agricultural sector

Beneficiaries
Local Agriculture Industry producers and exporters (Farmers)
Country
Type
Decree
Responsible institution
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Agro Investment Corporation (AIC)
Topics / Chapters
 A. Integration of population dynamics
Main Priority Measure

A.1 - Eradicate poverty

Reinforce the public policies and actions needed to eradicate poverty and break the cycles of exclusion and inequality as a condition for achieving development in the region.

A.3 - Public institutionality

Build and strengthen national and subnational public institutions with responsibility for population and development issues, and ensure that they function in an integral and sustainable manner with the active participation of non-governmental stakeholders.

A.4 - Population and development

Ensure full integration of population dynamics into sustainable development planning, sectoral policies and public policies and programmes in general ―in particular in development and land-use planning― at national and subnational levels, drawing on sociodemographic knowledge and information and harnessing technological advances.

A.5 - Sustainable development for human well-being

Pursue sustainable development as a means of securing now and in the future human well-being for all peoples on an equitable basis, and ensuring that the linkages between population, resources, the environment and development are fully recognized, appropriately administered and maintained in a harmonious and dynamic balance with a thriving biodiversity and healthy ecosystems