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3. Markets

Guyana production costs & market pricing

This details the average production cost and pricing in the current market:

• Production costs are based primarily on averages from NAREI
• Wholesale pricing is based on purchase prices of vendors in Stabroek market

• Retail pricing is based on the purchase price (less retail margin) in MASSY supermarkets
• Manufacturing pricing is based on delivered prices paid by TopCo (DDL)

Vegetables Fruit
Production & Pricing
USD/KG Cabbage Cauliflower Sweet corn Cucumber Sweet Guava Passion Cherry Mangoes Pineapples
Pepper fruit
Production cost
farm costs $ 0.28 $ 0.23 $ 0.16 $ 0.12 $ 0.55 $ 0.08 $ 0.35 $ 0.19 $ 0.16 $ 0.18
Wholesale channel
cash margin (av) $ 1.08 $ 1.24 $ 0.84 $ 0.07 $ 1.35 $ 1.06 $ 1.37 $ 0.90 $ 0.06
% margin (av) 59% 64% 57% 10% 57% 56% 67% 59% 9%
distribution $ 0.47 $ 0.47 $ 0.47 $ 0.47 $ 0.47 $ 0.47 $ 0.47 $ 0.47 $ 0.47
wholesale price $ 1.83 $ 1.94 $ 1.47 $ 0.66 $ 2.37 $ 1.88 $ 2.03 $ 1.54 $ 0.72
Retail channel
cash margin (av) $ 1.12 $ 3.36 $ 1.33 $ 0.11 $ 1.57 $ 1.50 $ 1.54 $ 1.11 $ 0.34
cash margin (%) 51% 70% 58% 14% 51% 55% 59% 54% 29%
retail margin $ 0.33 $ 0.72 $ 0.35 $ 0.12 $ 0.46 $ 0.41 $ 0.39 $ 0.31 $ 0.18
retail price $ 2.20 $ 4.78 $ 2.31 $ 0.83 $ 3.05 $ 2.73 $ 2.59 $ 2.05 $ 1.18
Manufacturing channel
cash margin (av) $ 0.11 $ 0.16 $ 0.19 $ 0.19
% margin (av) 17% 16% 22% 23%
distribution $ 0.47 $ 0.47 $ 0.47 $ 0.47
wholesale price $ 0.66 $ 0.98 $ 0.85 $ 0.85

Sustainable Agriculture in the Caribbean (SAC) Project

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