RAYNEAU INDUSTRIES CONTINUE TO ASSIST FARMERS IN ST VINCENT & THE GRENADINES

Goods ready for shipment

In March this year, our blog reported a project being undertaken by Rayneau Industries in St Vincent & the Grenadines. Latest reports indicate that this project is expanding and has now gone to new levels, where the company is attempting to fill the hole left by the closing of Winfresh.

The formation of Rayneau Industries, a growing food export business in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, has taken on the task of providing a marketing platform, initially for the farmers of St Vincent and the Grenadines. The company focuses on purchasing, selling, and exporting rather than manufacturing goods.

Sabato Caesar

“The role of our agro-exporters is central to the growth of our agriculture sector. I am encouraged to see young traders from various communities in SVG, both rural and urban, investigating agricultural export potential,” says Saboto Caesar, Minister of Agriculture of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Earlier this year a list of commodities, butternut squash, cabbage, callaloo, dasheen, bananas, yams, plantains, ginger, eddoes, and turmeric, was exported via container from St. Vincent and the Grenadines to the United States Virgin Islands.

The company has begun shipping coconuts to the US Virgin Islands on a regular basis, giving growers another secure outlet. The emphasis is on purchasing coconuts in the Orange Hill area. Mr Gajadhar assured farmers that as exports widen purchasing will spread across the country.

Rayneau Gajadhar

“When I came to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, I was impressed by the high level of agriculture production,” Mr. Gajadhar said. “But I saw there was room for a major marketer to improve on the current marketing.”  About expanding the business, he assured, “I’ll start with St. Vincent and the Grenadines and then expand to other islands. Volumes will be required for this to work and it will rely largely, first and foremost, on all participants’ belief that we can do the work.”

The company is nearing the end of its first year of food export operations and has established a network of hundreds of farmers.

Rayneau Industries is in the process of hiring senior management and registering farmers in an OECS supply chain.

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