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🌶️ A buyer calls about one batch of your pepper sauce. Could you quickly show where it came from, what went into it and ...
29/08/2026

🌶️ A buyer calls about one batch of your pepper sauce. Could you quickly show where it came from, what went into it and where the rest of that batch went?

That is where traceability becomes more than a label, barcode or QR code.

🔎 How Agri-Food Traceability Follows One Lot looks at what happens to the identity of a food batch as it moves from one stage to the next.

📦 What happens when a lot is split into different deliveries?

🥕 What happens when produce from different lots is combined?

🏷️ What happens when food is repacked?

🌶️ What happens when raw ingredients are turned into a completely different product?

The important part is keeping the records connected so that, if a question comes up later, the history of that batch can actually be traced.

💡 And before thinking about buying new software, the article suggests a simple test: choose one lot you have already sold and try to trace its full journey using the records you already keep.

Can you identify what went into it?
Can you see what happened to it?
Can you tell who received it?

If those answers are difficult to find, the exercise may show you exactly where the gaps are.

📖 Coming in the Oct–Dec 2026 AgTech issue of the AgriFocus Caribbean (AFC) quarterly eMagazine.

The article features expert input from Professor Neela Badrie, who also joins the AFC Advisory Panel.

🌱 Subscribe free to the AgriFocus Caribbean quarterly eMagazine: agrifocuscaribbean.com

🌱 NEW ON AGRIFOCUS CARIBBEANWhat Are You Protecting the Crop From?🌧️ Too much rain?🐛 Insect pressure?☀️ Too much heat an...
27/08/2026

🌱 NEW ON AGRIFOCUS CARIBBEAN

What Are You Protecting the Crop From?

🌧️ Too much rain?
🐛 Insect pressure?
☀️ Too much heat and sun?
💨 Poor airflow?
🌱 A need for more consistent production?

A rain shelter, net house, shade structure, and screen-enclosed greenhouse do different jobs. Each can solve one problem while creating another, so the right choice depends on your crop, your location, your water supply, the pests you face, your exposure to storms, and what you can realistically manage.

This new AgriFocus Caribbean guide helps farmers compare those choices before investing in a structure.

👩🏽‍🌾 Technical review and expert contribution: Dr. Wendy-Ann P. Isaac, Senior Lecturer in W**d Science and Agronomy, Faculty of Food and Agriculture, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, and member of the AgriFocus Caribbean Advisory Panel.

📖 Read the full article:
https://agrifocuscaribbean.com/what-are-you-protecting-the-crop-from/

🌱 Which postharvest technology does your crop actually need?A cold room may be useful for one crop and the wrong investm...
24/08/2026

🌱 Which postharvest technology does your crop actually need?

A cold room may be useful for one crop and the wrong investment for another. The same is true for curing, hot-water treatment, packaging and even the instruments used to check temperature and humidity.

The upcoming AgriFocus Caribbean AgTech 2026 eMagazine article, Choosing the Right Postharvest Technology for Your Crop, looks at these decisions from a practical farmer's point of view.

It asks the questions that matter before you spend:

What does your crop actually need after harvest?
How cold is too cold?
Can you copy a treatment used for another crop?
Does the box itself matter?
How do you know the conditions you set are the conditions the crop actually experienced?
And will the equipment pay for itself at your scale?

The article also draws on Caribbean examples involving hot peppers, sweet potato, Julie mangoes and produce packaging to show why there is no one postharvest setup that works for everything.

📖 Coming in AgriFocus Caribbean AgTech 2026 this October.

✅ Subscribe free to read the issue online:
https://agrifocuscaribbean.com

Could AI help with some of the work that keeps piling up after the farming is done?Sales records that need organizing. A...
17/08/2026

Could AI help with some of the work that keeps piling up after the farming is done?

Sales records that need organizing. A funding document that is difficult to work through. A business plan that needs a first draft. A buyer waiting for a professional reply. Questions you want to organize before speaking with an agronomist or another specialist.

These are some of the everyday tasks where generative AI may be useful.

Coming in the AgriFocus Caribbean eMagazine, the AgTech 2026 issue:

What AI Can Do for Your Farm Business and What It Must Not Decide

The article looks at practical ways farmers and agribusiness owners can use generative AI for business, planning and information tasks without treating it as an authority.

Because an AI answer can sound convincing and still be wrong, the article also looks at when information needs to be checked and when decisions should remain with an agronomist, veterinarian, extension officer, regulator or other qualified professional.

Developed with expert input from Dr. Priscilla Bahaw, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Agribusiness Management at The UWI St. Augustine.

AgTech 2026 arrives this October.

🌱 Subscribe free and read online:
agrifocuscaribbean.com

🌱 Technology is becoming part of more decisions across Caribbean agriculture. But knowing what is available is only part...
13/08/2026

🌱 Technology is becoming part of more decisions across Caribbean agriculture. But knowing what is available is only part of the picture.

For farmers and agribusinesses, the more important questions are: What is useful? Where does it fit? What should you consider before investing time or money?

📘 COMING OCTOBER 1, 2026

AgTech 2026, the next edition of the AgriFocus Caribbean eMagazine, takes a practical look at technology and innovation across Caribbean agriculture.

The focus is on credible, useful information that can help farmers, producers and agribusiness professionals:

✓ understand emerging technologies and new developments
✓ assess the options available to them
✓ see where different technologies may fit within Caribbean conditions
✓ make more informed production and business decisions

From aerial and satellite tools to irrigation sensors, protected production, traceability, post-harvest systems, climate information, farm data and AI, AgTech 2026 looks at what technology can do, where it fits and what it means in practice.

The issue brings together AgriFocus Caribbean editorial, guest contributions and specialist input from across Caribbean agriculture.

👥 FOLLOW THIS PAGE FOR UPDATES

Over the coming weeks, we will be introducing upcoming articles and some of the people contributing their knowledge and experience to AgTech 2026.

📩 SUBSCRIBE FREE

Subscribe now and be notified when AgTech 2026 is published on October 1.

👉 https://agrifocuscaribbean.com/magazine/

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If a storm flattened your crops next month, how long would you wait for money?There is insurance sold directly to farmer...
04/08/2026

If a storm flattened your crops next month, how long would you wait for money?

There is insurance sold directly to farmers that pays out within 14 days of a trigger being reached, with no damage assessment and no adjuster visit. It launched in Jamaica in December 2025, and Belize, Grenada and Saint Lucia were named for 2026. It is not perfect, and the article is honest about where it falls short, but you cannot arrange it after a storm. Only before one.

That is one of the shorter routes. There are longer ones. Grant money is real, but most windows are closed to individual farmers and open only to registered groups, which is one practical reason to join or strengthen one now, before a call opens.

The new AgriFocus Caribbean article walks through each route in plain language. What you can reach on your own, what needs a group behind you, what your government has to apply for, and the four things worth doing this season regardless.

It was developed in collaboration with UnaMay Gordon, MSc, who has spent years working on climate finance across the region.

Making Climate Finance Work for Caribbean Farmers
https://agrifocuscaribbean.com/making-climate-finance-work-for-caribbean-farmers/

🌱 The cold chain starts in the field—not in the cold room.Many farmers lose quality and income long before their produce...
07/07/2026

🌱 The cold chain starts in the field—not in the cold room.

Many farmers lose quality and income long before their produce reaches the market. Our latest article shares practical, affordable ways to reduce spoilage, extend shelf life, and keep fruits and vegetables fresher for longer.

📖 Read the full article:
https://www.agrifocuscaribbean.com

New on AgriFocus CaribbeanBeyond the Spray: Biopesticides and IPM for Caribbean Vegetable FarmsWhen a spray stops workin...
22/06/2026

New on AgriFocus Caribbean
Beyond the Spray: Biopesticides and IPM for Caribbean Vegetable Farms

When a spray stops working the way it once did, the answer is not always to spray more often.

This article looks at how Caribbean farmers can make stronger pest-management decisions through field scouting, action thresholds, biological control, biopesticides, disease prevention, protected cultivation, and more selective use of pesticides when they are truly needed.

We are also pleased to welcome Dr. Machel A. Emanuel to the AgriFocus Caribbean Advisory Panel with this article. Dr. Emanuel is a lecturer and botanist in the Department of Life Sciences at The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica. His technical review and contribution strengthened the article's IPM discussion, ensuring it reflects both current science and the practical realities Caribbean farmers face.

Read the full article: https://agrifocuscaribbean.com/beyond-the-spray-biopesticides-and-ipm-for-caribbean-vegetable-farms/

New on AgriFocus Caribbean 🐔Salmonella and Campylobacter can move through a poultry flock without making birds look sick...
01/06/2026

New on AgriFocus Caribbean 🐔
Salmonella and Campylobacter can move through a poultry flock without making birds look sick. The risks then follow eggs and dressed chicken all the way to the consumer.

Our latest article takes a practical look at how these pathogens enter and spread through backyard and small-scale Caribbean poultry systems, and the steps farmers can take to reduce risk: coop hygiene, rodent control, egg handling, water management, processing practices, and cold storage.

We are also pleased to welcome Dr. Isabel Blackman to the AgriFocus Caribbean Advisory Panel. Dr. Blackman is a Lecturer II in the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry at the University of Guyana and holds a Ph.D. in Food Science and Technology. We are grateful for her expert contribution to this article.

Read the full article 👉 https://agrifocuscaribbean.com/salmonella-campylobacter-and-the-backyard-coop-keeping-pathogens-out-of-caribbean-poultry-and-eggs/

📍 New on AgriFocus CaribbeanReally pleased to welcome Dr. David O. Yawson to the AgriFocus Caribbean Advisory Panel. 🙏Ou...
25/05/2026

📍 New on AgriFocus Caribbean

Really pleased to welcome Dr. David O. Yawson to the AgriFocus Caribbean Advisory Panel. 🙏

Our latest article takes a practical look at how drones and digital tools are starting to help Caribbean agriculture — not in a futuristic way, but in ways farmers can actually use.

Across the region, drones are already being used to:
🌱 spot crop stress earlier
💧 identify drainage and water issues
🦠 detect pest and disease problems faster
📍 map fields after flooding and storms

The article also looks honestly at the challenges still holding wider adoption back, especially for small farmers — including cost, internet access, training, and regulation.

Big thanks to Dr. Yawson for contributing his expertise and helping ensure the information shared through AgriFocus Caribbean stays grounded in real regional knowledge and science.

Read the full article here 👇
https://agrifocuscaribbean.com/what-caribbean-agriculture-has-built-with-drones-and-ai/

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