Laluni cherry orchard feeds DDL’s juice production line

Lloyd Doobay

Lloyd Doobay is modest about his evident success as a farmer and reluctant to concede, despite manifest evidence, that he is the owner of what is probably the single largest cherry orchard at Laluni on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway. Rather than discuss his own accomplishments as a farmer, he appears more inclined to talk about some of the problems that plague farming communities on the highway and about the remedial measures that can transform their well-being.

Doobay’s success with his cherry orchard is obvious. He is one of the largest local suppliers of Demerara Distillers Limited’s (DDL) Topco Juice plant.

Laluni is accessed through Kuru Kururu, travelling eight miles north along a