More female entrepreneurs emerge at GuyExpo

A patron reads the label on a product from ‘Medicine From Trees,’ an Annai-based producer

Women are dominant among emerging entrepreneurs at this year’s GuyExpo.

“We are mothers from regions One, Two and Nine… we are looking this year at this expo to expand our market not really to overseas but first get a good local market and then we see how it goes. We want more local persons to know who we are,” Kim Casimero told Stabroek News when the expo opened on Thursday evening at the Sophia Exhibition Complex.

She is one of many members of the Women Agro Processors Development Network (WADN), an organisation of six groups from three regions. They are the