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    Farm Up Jamaica partners with Jamaican farmers to grow organic crops and bring volunteer tourists to Jamaica to help with planting. This increases tourism while developing the agricultural sector. Partnering with hotels provides a local source of organic food while reducing imports. Farm Up Jamaica obtained organic certification for 8 farmers and oversees farming projects to ensure quality. Expanding organic agriculture could boost Jamaica's economy through increased exports, jobs, and reduced crime and food imports while enhancing food security and tourism. Interested parties are invited to partner and share in the economic opportunities.

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    12.45 P.M. Mr. Neil Curtis

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    Farm Up Jamaica partners with Jamaican farmers to grow organic crops and bring volunteer tourists to Jamaica to help with planting. This increases tourism while developing the agricultural sector. Partnering with hotels provides a local source of organic food while reducing imports. Farm Up Jamaica obtained organic certification for 8 farmers and oversees farming projects to ensure quality. Expanding organic agriculture could boost Jamaica's economy through increased exports, jobs, and reduced crime and food imports while enhancing food security and tourism. Interested parties are invited to partner and share in the economic opportunities.

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    Farm Up Jamaica partners with Jamaican farmers to grow organic crops and bring volunteer tourists to Jamaica to help with planting. This increases tourism while developing the agricultural sector. Partnering with hotels provides a local source of organic food while reducing imports. Farm Up Jamaica obtained organic certification for 8 farmers and oversees farming projects to ensure quality. Expanding organic agriculture could boost Jamaica's economy through increased exports, jobs, and reduced crime and food imports while enhancing food security and tourism. Interested parties are invited to partner and share in the economic opportunities.

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    12.45 P.M. Mr. Neil Curtis

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    Farm Up Jamaica partners with Jamaican farmers to grow organic crops and bring volunteer tourists to Jamaica to help with planting. This increases tourism while developing the agricultural sector. Partnering with hotels provides a local source of organic food while reducing imports. Farm Up Jamaica obtained organic certification for 8 farmers and oversees farming projects to ensure quality. Expanding organic agriculture could boost Jamaica's economy through increased exports, jobs, and reduced crime and food imports while enhancing food security and tourism. Interested parties are invited to partner and share in the economic opportunities.

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    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
    [email protected] TEL 876 592 5992

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