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Stakeholders for the Following Regulated Agricultural Commodities Cocoa, Coconut, Coffee and Spices

As of June 1, 2020, the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA) will be accepting applications for renewal and new licenses for the following: coffee; cocoa; coconut; spices (pimento, nutmeg, ginger and turmeric; trade mark user and foreign importer.

Please be advised that no person shall manufacture, distribute, process, export or import, operate as a dealer, or operate a works facility without a license from JACRA. A person who does so is guilty of an offence under the JACRA ACT 2017.

Application forms can be obtained online or the legal department of JACRA.

Effective January 1, 2018, JACRA has been mandated to regulate the trade in coffee, cocoa, coconut, and the spices as well as for authorizing the use of Jamaica Blue Mountain (JBM) & Jamaica High Mountain (JHM) coffee trade marks.

Signed: The Management
Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA)
Tel: (876) 758-1259; 758-3903, 758-5459
Fax: (876) 758-3905
Email: licensing@jacra.org
Website: www.jacra.org

Stakeholders For The Following Regulated Agricultural Commodities Cocoa, Coconut, Coffee And Spices

As of January 1, 2018 Coffee Industry Board, Cocoa Industry Board, the regulatory functions of the Coconut Industry Board and the export division of The Ministry Of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture & Fisheries, (MICAF) have been subsumed into the new statutory body, JACRA.

As of June 1, 2019, JACRA will be accepting applications for new licenses for the following commodities (coffee, cocoa, coconut, spices, trade mark user and foreign importer).  

Application forms can be obtained here or the legal department of Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA)