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3. Markets

Mapping the Jamaica Herbs and Spices market

• Lots of local hot sauces
• Little involvement • Women involved in and teas produced Higglers are mainly • Women selling family farm
in seedlings family farms not head • Limited scale due to lack buying locally and produce in markets
• Seed banks good or registered farmer of finance and buildings selling in municipal • Women on agro-parks sell
opportunity • Larger scale on agro- • Women employed in markets (not under contract. Relatively
farms larger processors farmers) few due to higher leases.

Suppliers Farmers Processors Distributors Buyers

Farmer groups including: Large Firms: Ginger and
RADA Turmeric: Local Markets:
Agro-Grace Hot Pepper Farmers Guys Hill Group: • Grace Kennedy • Coronation Market
Bodles Research (RADA ABIS data) 291 @ 18 women • Walkers Wood • Authentic Teas • Municipal Markets
Station women Grace Kennedy • Gray’s Pepper • A1 Farm
Newport Fersan 500 farmers of Ginger Contract Farmers • King Pepper Production • Airport Outlet
T Geddes Grant and Tumeric Medium/ Small Firms: • Top Rod • Supermarkets

125 women Imagination • Spur Tree Spices • Linstead Market Marketing
Farms Companies including:
Jamaica Network of • Ashman Food • Carita (Rita • Grace Kennedy
Rural Women Farmers: A1 Farms Products Simes) (Maureen Denton)
600 women members Other • Double Deuce • Canco
independent Limited • Central Food • Spanish Grain Limited
St Mary's Jeffery Town • Glastonbury Purveyor
Farmer: @ 40 farmers • Stanmark Packers Limited Limited
Processors
Key: members, 20 women • Tops Teas Export:
• JACRA/ Export Division
• Size of arrow represents relative involvement of women at different stages in the value chain. (main trader)
• Information is from internal mapping workshop, not formal survey • Processors exporting
(Grace etc)
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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