Caribbean Fresh Produce Market - Caricom free online service for Farmers

April 7, 2009 - PRLog -- Twenty countries in the Caribbean region are part of the CARIbbean
COMmunity (Caricom) trade
treaty promoting a Single Market Economy (CSME)
between all member countries. This includes the free transportation of goods.

The Caribbean sea, sun, weather and local culture made the Caribbean islands one of the most wanted tourist destination on earth. This led to a boom in the tourism industry which caused hotels, resorts, cruise ships, airlines and other companies to appear in this region. Traditionally, this region relayed on local agriculture to support a substantial amount of its local demand for fresh food, mean, fish and produce. In addition, good weather conditions, government concessions and geographical location paved the way for some large scale agriculture manufacturing operations to appear in the region. Millions of tourists to the region each year tripled and quadrupled the need for fresh food, meat fish and produce in the region. Local agriculture is no longer able to produce the required quantities. This triggered large scale importing of food to the region, primarily from the US and Canada (due to their geographical proximity to the area). This makes the fresh produce market a buyer only market where anyone capable to produce quality products and reach the buyers market is able to sell his produce at excellent prices. In addition the fact that between CARICOM member nations there are no import taxes, which can reach up to 35% in some countries, emphasis even more the need to find locally grown fresh produce and not import it from outside the region.

LirTrade LLC identified this opportunity and set out to build such community online where:

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     Farmers can list their existing and planned produce, buy the
     products they need to produce (equipment , fertilizers, irrigation systems,
     etc), and find related services (e.g. consulting, etc).
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     Buyers can find the produce they need in their region, save on
     import taxes and compare prices.
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     Marketing companies can promote the produce manufactured by the
     farmers they market and find suitable buyer.

This community is designed to be a member only community where the information is given to all parties without the company interfering with the market or taking any position on the stocks and produce.

This vision has materialized to a highly sophisticated and interactive website located at http://www.caribfresh.com/ which was launched by LirTrade LLC and is currently free for use to the public while in Beta Phase.

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SHIGAM is a consulting and operator company for the agriculture industry. We are specialized in growing and marketing Top Quality fresh vegetables, fruits & herbs.