FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AGRO-INVEST HOSTS JAMAICA’S FIRST DRIVE-THRU FARMERS’ MARKET
KINGSTON, Jamaica– The Agro-Investment Corporation, located at the AMC Complex, 188 Spanish Town Road, will be hosting its very first Drive-Thru Farmers’ Market on April 29 and May 1, 2020 and the Media is invited to cover this novel farmers’ market. “Farmers markets play a critical role in providing fresh, nutritious and locally-produced food products to customers across Jamaica” and this initiative has been developed in an effort to collaborate with farmers and purveyors across the country in getting excess fresh produce sold. Our Agro Parks with its Global Gap Certification, along with other certified farms will be supplying the fresh vegetables and ground provisions.
The gates will open at 10am to 4pm at 188 Spanish Town Road, Kingston 11 and the drive in purchasers will have a turnaround time of 7-10 minutes. Fresh produce consisting of lettuce, cucumber, cabbage, Irish potato, sorrel, scotch bonnet pepper, cantaloupe, zucchini, scallion, onion, tomato and melon, will be packaged into 20 and 25 pound bags at a cost of $1000.00 and $1500.00 respectively.
As a precaution, and to assist in fighting against the Novel Coronavirus, persons entering the AMC complex must be wearing a mask covering the nose and mouth. They will be subjected to a temperature check, in addition to a sanitization exercise in keeping with the mandate set by the Ministry of Health and Wellness.
The support of the media will be most welcomed as we seek to ensure the success of this venture.
For further information please contact Mrs Alecia Brown-Forbes at 876 -878-0616 or our offices at:
Agro-Investment Corporation
188 Spanish Town Road, Kingston 11
876-923-0086/ 876-923-9268
IG:@agroinvestja
Twitter:@agroinvestja
FB: @agroinvestja
The Agro-Invest Corporation is the agri-business facilitation arm within the Ministry of Investment Commerce Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), with a focus on agricultural investment, promotion, project development and market development. The Corporation covers the investment chain from the identification of agricultural opportunities straight through to long-term business performance monitoring and technical support. The Agro-Invest seeks to activate, stimulate, facilitate and undertake agricultural development for economic advancement and the well-being of the Jamaican people.
The Corporation is a merger of the Agricultural Marketing Corporation (AMC), the Agricultural Development Corporation (ADC) and the Agricultural Support Services Project (ASSP). The organization celebrated its 11th year of existence in April of this year.
One of the areas of focus for the Corporation is the AGRO PARKS. An Agro Park represents an area of intensive, contiguous, parcel of land for agricultural production which seeks to integrate all facets of the agricultural value chain from pre-production to production, post harvesting and marketing. It comes with infrastructure like irrigation, tractor services, technical support for agricultural production and marketing.
A functional area of any Agro Park is clustering which presents many benefits, such as creating an enabling environment for interfirm cooperation, facilitating the diffusion of innovations, and acting as a means to efficiently channel public support to increase competitiveness in the agricultural sector. Investors/ Farmers and firms can benefit from participating in ACs, as they enjoy evident joint-action advantages and agglomeration economies.