Farm up Jamaica

Aligning the agricultural sector to the

travel & tourist sector
Farm Up Jamaica brings 600 Tourists to Jamaica
to plant 10acres of Organic Ginger
 MULTI-IMPACT SOURCING TO DRIVE TOURISM
• Your Company partners with a grower to create a value chain
• Source your product at significantly lower prices
• You help create entrepreneurship & jobs
• You will revitalize communities & boost local economies
• Your partnership helps increase Tourism “Voluntourism”
 WHAT AGRICULTURE
DEVELOPMENT WILL DO FOR
TOURISM

• 1 Excursion per month = 7,200

new “Voluntourists,” annually

• Provide Hotel Industry with

high-demand organic food

• $600 million in food imported

by Hotel Industry in 2014
80%

2016, Voluntourism.org, Jenny Morgan

WITHIN EVERY CHALLENGE, LIES AN
OPPORTUNITY
US$1 BILLION ON THE
TABLE ANNUALLY
WHO WE ARE, WHAT WE DO
• New York: US-based 501(c)(3) charity

• Jamaica: Social Enterprise

• Mission: to reduce the importation of

foreign food in Jamaica by strategically
farming crops being imported and
increasing exportation of high quality
organic, non-genetically modified non-
GMO produce.

• What We Do:
1. Oversee each farming project
2. Closely monitor operations in order to
ensure strict guidelines are met
3. Ensure high quality & consistency
 RISING VALUE OF GLOBAL
AGRICULTURE
• Global population projected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050
• The world will need to increase food production by 70 percent to
accommodate this population growth, Jamaica can help!
• Jamaica must begin to feed itself, then export for profit - self-reliance
 WHY ORGANIC FARMING?

• Health benefits
• Environmental benefits (intergenerational)
• Reduce importation, while creating a new local option
for Hotel Industry (in high demand)
• Lucrative export opportunities
ORGANIC CERTIFICATION:
A NEW LANE FOR BRAND JAMAICA
 FARM UP JAMAICA OBTAINS ORGANIC
CERTIFICATION FOR 8 JAMAICAN FARMERS

FOR SALE
LARGE INVENTORY AVAILABLE
 READJUSTING OUR FOCUS:
LINKING BUSINESS, GOVERNMENT, NGOS AND DIASPORA IN COMMON CAUSE

• From making a fortune from the base of the pyramid to

creating a fortune with it. 2002 “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid,” C.K. Prahalad and
Stuart L. Hart

• Organic Agricultural Development

1. Lucrative economic opportunity
2. Creates entrepreneurship
3. Helps protect the environment
4. Enhances food security
5. Reduces Crime
6. Boosts Tourism
 ONION PROJECT: ACTIVATE NOW
Project Size Cost/ Acre Seasons/Year Yield/Acre 1st Year Sales Expansion Potential Secured
Projection Market
Onion 100acres US$10,900 2 25,000lbs US$1,750,000 800Acres Ministry of
Agriculture

PARTNER WITH US TO
REALIZE ANNUAL RETURNS
AS HIGH AS 30%
FILL OUT INTERESTED PARTY FORM IN BOOKLET & RETURN TO US
 JOIN US
IN MAKING HISTORY

New York Jamaica

315 West 36th Street Banana Board Building Suite 2
New York, NY 10018 10 South Avenue, Kingston 4,
TEL : 516 376 1626 Jamaica, West Indies
info@farmupjamaica.org TEL 876 592 5992