SECTION Instruction: Complete ALL questions from this section. QUESTION Agriculture is crucial to securing our future, Agriculture is the chief food security in one of the fundamental priorities As the Food and Agricole Deyan (FAO) opened in a recent statement, with the widespad impact of COVID-19, We risk along food criw, unless measures are taken to protect the most valuable knop fool wupply chain alive and mitigate the pandemic's impacts across the food wym Bender losures quarantines, and market supply chain and traditions cold restrict people's costo sufficient diverse and tissues of food expecially in and by the are already affected by high levels of food insecurity. Our farmers and formes important now than ever before The Local Reality The last two quarter of the year have been pood for agriculture, with seves per competin the last quarter. In fact production has increased commerces, which in tumanitat present we have sufficient plies of vegetables, fruits, when for the next two months However, with the nificant down in demand due to the followed farmers have been handit. The Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) estimated an excess of 20,000 tonnes of produce for the month of March April, munting to approximately $2 billion in potential losses. Our fish industry business down, with estimates or losses conting to ever 1 hili Our livestock industry has reported an over 50 per cent falleff in demand, and our egg and dairy farmers are recling from the crunch. Clearly, the ability to find markets for the impacted and to help them rebound from this fallout is still four home is to be formed inte long-term sustenance The Ministry of Agriculture allocated S240 million to start an eco produce buy back programme. Thus far, we have impacted over 200 farmersfrie pressed over 250.000 pounds of produce. We have also capod cour private secteurs or their take-off of the exces, especially where they have the appropriate age capacity. The top has been encouraging with Grace Kennedy committing to moving alleen poppen Kallion. Trade Winds Limited is working with us to develop a nem exco tomatoes and Dencon Feeds Limited precing to purchase 600.000 pounds of Irish Floyd Green-Duillemmer: April 2007 21/01 The Council of Community College of Jamaica Page 2 Required: A Given the current context in which Jamaica, like the rest of the world, is amicitiae What are the challenges being faced by small developing that could impact regional food security and self-sufficiency Describe some ways in which Jamaica's agricultural sector has contributed to the conomic growth and stability Evaluate the effectiveness of public policies and programmes which implemented to help farmers avigate market disruptive forces which were as by the pandemic Describe TWO aditional strategies and or actions on the part of the womment which may be necessary in pol COVIB 1907 SECTION Instruction: Complete ALL questions from this section. QUESTION Agriculture is crucial to securing our future, Agriculture is the chief food security in one of the fundamental priorities As the Food and Agricole Deyan (FAO) opened in a recent statement, with the widespad impact of COVID-19, We risk along food criw, unless measures are taken to protect the most valuable knop fool wupply chain alive and mitigate the pandemic's impacts across the food wym Bender losures quarantines, and market supply chain and traditions cold restrict people's costo sufficient diverse and tissues of food expecially in and by the are already affected by high levels of food insecurity. Our farmers and formes important now than ever before The Local Reality The last two quarter of the year have been pood for agriculture, with seves per competin the last quarter. In fact production has increased commerces, which in tumanitat present we have sufficient plies of vegetables, fruits, when for the next two months However, with the nificant down in demand due to the followed farmers have been handit. The Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) estimated an excess of 20,000 tonnes of produce for the month of March April, munting to approximately $2 billion in potential losses. Our fish industry business down, with estimates or losses conting to ever 1 hili Our livestock industry has reported an over 50 per cent falleff in demand, and our egg and dairy farmers are recling from the crunch. Clearly, the ability to find markets for the impacted and to help them rebound from this fallout is still four home is to be formed inte long-term sustenance The Ministry of Agriculture allocated S240 million to start an eco produce buy back programme. Thus far, we have impacted over 200 farmersfrie pressed over 250.000 pounds of produce. We have also capod cour private secteurs or their take-off of the exces, especially where they have the appropriate age capacity. The top has been encouraging with Grace Kennedy committing to moving alleen poppen Kallion. Trade Winds Limited is working with us to develop a nem exco tomatoes and Dencon Feeds Limited precing to purchase 600.000 pounds of Irish Floyd Green-Duillemmer: April 2007 21/01 The Council of Community College of Jamaica Page 2 Required: A Given the current context in which Jamaica, like the rest of the world, is amicitiae What are the challenges being faced by small developing that could impact regional food security and self-sufficiency Describe some ways in which Jamaica's agricultural sector has contributed to the conomic growth and stability Evaluate the effectiveness of public policies and programmes which implemented to help farmers avigate market disruptive forces which were as by the pandemic Describe TWO aditional strategies and or actions on the part of the womment which may be necessary in pol COVIB 1907