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April 2020
 

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 27 Apr 2020    ICTAdmin   

KINGSTON, Jamaica– The Agro-Investment Corporation, located at the AMC Complex, 188 Spanish Town Road, will be hosting its very first Drive-Thru Farmers’ Market on April 29 and May 1, 2020 and the Media is invited to cover this novel farmers’ market. “Farmers markets play a critical role in providing fresh, nutritious and locally-produced food products to customers across Jamaica” and this initiative has been developed in an effort to collaborate with farmers and purveyors across the country in getting excess fresh produce sold. Our Agro Parks with its Global Gap Certification, along with other certified farms will be supplying the fresh vegetables and ground provisions.

The gates will open at 10am to 4pm at 188 Spanish Town Road, Kingston 11 and the drive in purchasers will have a turnaround time of 7-10 minutes. Fresh produce consisting of lettuce, cucumber, cabbage, Irish potato, sorrel, scotch bonnet pepper, cantaloupe, zucchini, scallion, onion, tomato and melon, will be packaged into 20 and 25 pound bags at a cost of $1000.00 and $1500.00 respectively.

As a precaution, and to assist in fighting against the Novel Coronavirus, persons entering the AMC complex must be wearing a mask covering the nose and mouth. They will be subjected to a temperature check, in addition to a sanitization exercise in keeping with the mandate set by the Ministry of Health and Wellness.

For further information, please contact Mrs Alecia Brown-Forbes at 876 -878-0616 or our offices at:

Agro-Investment Corporation
188 Spanish Town Road, Kingston 11
876-923-0086/ 876-923-9268
IG:@agroinvestja
Twitter:@agroinvestja
FB: @agroinvestja

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