Resident in Jamaica for the past 35 years, Mohan Jagnarine says he is seeing benefit in collaborating with local farmers to secure valuable raw material for his successful agro-processing enterprise in Kingston.
At a time when the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) says that local agricultural production is “in a good place,” farmers are becoming increasingly challenged to seek out external markets in the face of decidedly modest local ones.
Earlier this week Stabroek Business caught up with Jagnarine as he was in the final stages of overseeing the preparation, packaging and shipping a consignment of more than 38,000 pounds of ‘pepper mash’ to Jamaica. The mash is destined for the
