Figure 1: World Bank Site Visit: Coastal Pepper Farms. World Bank and Jamaica Business Fund make site visit to SME Pepper Farm. (In the Picture: (left) Junior Ebanks, Field Technical Officer, Peter Campbell, Pepper Farmer – Coastal Pepper Farm; Ronald Dubrisingh, Fund Manager – (JBF); Galina Sotirova, Country Manager – Jamaica, World Bank Group (WBG); Cecile Niang, Program Leader – Caribbean Countries, World Bank Group (WBG); Kenneth Reid, SME Specialist – (JBF), Taji Alleyne, General Manager, GK Foods & Services: Grace Agro-Processors. Date: November 29, 2017. Photo credit: Pierre Dawson.

On Wednesday, November 29, 2017, the World Bank Group representatives Cecile Niang and Galina Sotirova visited Jamaica Business Fund beneficiary Mr. Peter Campbell of Coastal Pepper Farms in Martha Brae, Trelawny. Coastal Pepper Farms is one of the twenty-four (24) SMEs who have directly benefitted from grant funding under the GK Foods & Services: Grace Agro-Processors project entitled: GAP- Developing a Sustainable Supply Chain for the International Pepper Market. Under this project, farmers were assisted with technical training, capacity building, and select inputs in a bid to strengthen their operations and foster sustainability and economic growth.

Figure 2: Stakeholders Tour Pepper Farm