Despite its growing popularity worldwide, castor bean is not yet a major farm crop in Jamaica. Industry stakeholders are now warning of potential shortages due to crop losses, which could further ...

Hutchinson said, to realise the potential of the local castor bean, Jamaica needs to have a ... is not a major farm crop in the island. “This is too much of an important [product] for it to ...

Kent Yeatman, a farmer based in the drought-prone Binga district in Matabeleland North, believes he has finally struck the right chord by venturing into castor bean production. Over the years ...

The resulting castor bean grain will be sold to local oil producers ... allowing SLC the potential to diversify its crops and improve farm economics, said Aurelio Pavinato, chief executive of ...

The RCMP began collecting the household garbage of a Prince Edward Island man in December 2013 because they allege he had the castor beans necessary to produce a "substantial quantity" of the ...