The Sugar Industry Authority offers a comprehensive range of services to the Jamaican sugar industry and external clients — including laboratory analysis, variety development, extension support, and plant protection. All prices are listed in Jamaican Dollars (JMD).
Analytical Services
The Central Laboratory provides a full suite of quality control and assurance testing for sugar factories, private agricultural clients, and government agencies.
Soil Analyses
| Test | Cost (JMD) |
|---|---|
| pH | $800 |
| Nitrogen or Phosphate | $1,400 |
| Potash, Calcium, Sodium (each) | $1,100 |
| pH, N, P, K | $4,500 |
| Package (pH, N, P, K, Ca, Na, B) | $9,000 |
| Boron | $2,700 |
| Salinity Survey (pH, EC, Ca, Mg, Na, K, CO3, HCO3-, Cl-, SAR) | $6,000 |
| Chloride Analysis | $2,400 |
| SAR | $3,600 |
Other Soil Analyses
| Test | Cost (JMD) |
|---|---|
| Moisture | $2,400 |
| Mechanical Analysis | $1,600 |
| Organic Matter | $1,600 |
| Cation Exchange Capacity | $2,000 |
| Electrical Conductivity | $800 |
Water Analyses
| Test | Cost (JMD) |
|---|---|
| Water Analyses (pH, EC, Ca, Mg, Na, K, CO3, HCO3, Cl-, SAR) | $9,000 |
| Package Analyses (pH, EC, Ca, Mg, Na, K, CO3, HCO3, Cl-, SAR, SO4, NO3, PO4, ALK, TSS/TDS) | $13,000 |
Wastewater Analyses (HACH)
| Test | Cost (JMD) |
|---|---|
| Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) | $2,700 |
| Dissolved Oxygen (DO) | $3,000 |
| Alkalinity (Alk) | $1,800 |
| Nitrate, Phosphate, Sulphate (each) (NO3, PO4, SO4) | $1,440 |
| Total Suspended Solids (TSS) | $2,200 |
| pH | $800 |
| Electrical Conductivity (EC) | $800 |
| Chlorides (Cl) | $2,400 |
| Package Routine Analyses (COD, Alk, NO3, PO4, SO4, TSS, EC) | $11,600 |
Analysis of Molasses / Cane Juice
| Test | Cost (JMD) |
|---|---|
| Moisture | $2,000 |
| pH | $1,100 |
| Ash | $2,200 |
| Brix | $2,000 |
| Pol | $4,000 |
| Sodium, Potassium Exchangeable (each) | $1,100 |
| Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium (N, P, K) — acid digest | $4,500 |
Analysis of Sugar
| Test | Cost (JMD) |
|---|---|
| Moisture | $7,200 |
| Conductivity Ash | $6,600 |
| Pol | $12,000 |
| Reducing Sugars (Berlin Method) | $10,200 |
| Colour (Whole Raw) | $35,700 |
| Colour (Affined) | $41,700 |
| Dextran (HAZE) | $35,700 |
| Insoluble Solids | $15,000 |
| Grain Size | $24,000 |
| Starch | $15,000 |
| Package (All Parameters) | $192,945 |
Analysis of Molasses
| Test | Cost (JMD) |
|---|---|
| Ash | $4,400 |
| Brix | $4,000 |
| Pol | $8,000 |
| Package (All Parameters) | $15,580 |
Variety Development Services
Programs
- Field Testing
- Variety Selection
- Disease Screening
Services
- The Variety Development Department continues to develop high quality, high-yielding, disease resistant varieties from true seeds for the sugarcane industry.
- Testing varieties developed in other countries to see how well they will perform in the local conditions.
- Varieties are tested island-wide for adaptation to local soils and climatic conditions.
Extension Services
Contact
uriel.green@jamaicasugar.org · rennix.dixon@jamaicasugar.org · callie.brown@jamaicasugar.org
Programs
- Training
- Routine and scheduled farm visits
- Expansion of new varieties
Services
- Dissemination of research findings
- Field visits, result demonstrations, field days, and seminars
- Monitoring, survey, and surveillance
- Census (farmer, holdings, variety)
- Crop performance and data collection
- Individual and summary data purveying information gleaned from census, monitoring, and evaluations/analyses
- Focus group meetings
- General agriculture advice on farm layout, crop nutrition, drainage and irrigation
- Business plans
- Mediation (communicating growers’ concerns to the SIA)
- Variety management (variety identification choice by growing region and soil type)
- General good agricultural practices (weed management)
- Pre-harvest maturity testing
- Verification of data
- Digital mapping
- GPS map
Plant Protection Unit Services
Services
- Pest and Disease Surveillance — Monitoring sugarcane fields to detect and track major pest and disease outbreaks.
- Diagnostic Services — Conducting laboratory and field-based diagnosis of pests and pathogens affecting sugarcane.
- Integrated Pest Management (IPM) — Developing and promoting sustainable strategies for pest and disease control.
- Technical Advisory Services — Providing guidance and recommendations to estates, farmers, and stakeholders on best practices for plant health.
- Applied and Strategic Research — Designing and implementing research on pest and disease management, including resistance screening and molecular studies.
- Varietal Screening — Assessing newly developed sugarcane varieties for tolerance and resistance to pests and diseases, such as the sugarcane stalk borer and smut.
- Annual Borer Damage Survey — Evaluating borer impact and population levels to guide industry-wide management strategies.
- Biological Control Programme — Managing the rearing, quality assurance, and release of Cotesia flavipes for the suppression of sugarcane borer populations.
- Capacity Building and Training — Delivering workshops, manuals, and extension support to build stakeholder knowledge and skills.
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