Back in March the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) staged a relatively low-key event at its Parika agro-processing facility to mark the ‘birth’ of Hana, its new ‘lightly salted’ packaged plantain chip. For consumers, the significance of the event reposed in the fact that a branded version of a commodity that is hugely popular among in Guyana was finally emerging to sit on supermarket shelves – and at other outlets, we hope – alongside the imported brands that have established their own presence in our local outlets.
While the full extent of the availability of the new plantain chip is not yet known, the Stabroek Business has learnt that it has indeed been placed on the local market insofar as it can be found in the various Bounty outlets at Kitty, Regent Street, and Grove. Presumably, much wider distribution plans are in the making.
