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3. Market

Guyana Fruit & Vegetable Market Mapping

• Local jams, preserved Women act as
Increasing • Women often on fruit, juice middlemen but wider Middle-aged to
involvement in family farm not lead • Scale is limited by access is limited by lack older women
nurseries and • ↑ urban professionals lack of knowledge, of finance, knowledge selling produce in
seedling production entering agriculture storage, finance and transport markets

Suppliers Farmers Processors Distributors Buyers

NAREI Farmers and Groups (NAREI) • DDL/ Topco Investment in • DDL/ Topco Markets (to consumers):
Caribbean chemicals information) eg: processing facility and • Stabroek Market
Pop up seedling shops (see extensive list in Guyana • Banks DIH • Bourda Market
Mapping excel file) increasing demand from 1mn to • Sterling Products • East La Penitence Market
Laluni Farmers Group 4mn pounds per year • Middlemen • Kitty Market
Bendorf Group • Banks DIH Soft drinks, fruit • Parika Market,
Canal #1 and #2 juices • Leonora Market, Plaisance
Essequibo Coast farmers (DDL • Sterling Products fruit ice
information) eg creams Snackettes: Supermarkets:
• Carambola: 4 lead farmers • M&M • Massy
• WADNET Agro- Processing
working x 10-15 farmers each • Maggies • Survival
• Guava: 6 lead farmers x 5 network 11 groups (9 in • Beacon • Bounty
farmers each hinterland, 1 highway region 4 • Oasis • Mattai’s
• Cherry: 32 lead farmers with and other is region 5 on west Export: • Cost Cutters
Key: many suppliers coast of Berbice) Topco • Real Value
Banks DIH
• Size of arrow represents relative involvement of women at different stages in the value chain. New GMC
• Information is from internal mapping workshop, not formal survey
Potential partner to kick start initial collaborations – interest in engagement of women and youth

Sustainable Agriculture in the Caribbean (SAC) Project

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