Success has a tendency of imposing its own pressures and so it seems with the Guyana Marketing Corporation’s Farmers Market, which from all indications, has become popular with both shoppers and vendors.
This year, as is customary, trading began around 06:00 hrs. and that only complaint that reached the Stabroek Business came from disgruntled patrons who, apparently having indulged in the weekend oversleeping habit turned to too late to miss the bounty of greens and vegetables that arrived from the various coastal farms and had been reportedly been ‘snapped up’ by 09:00 hrs.
Truth be told, the Stabroek Business was sympathetic only to the point of expressing the hope that the satisfied farmers would bring even larger volumes of vegetables and greens to the next Farmers’ Market event in December. On the whole we were more happy for the farmers who had come great distances with their produce and had returned home, in good spirits than upset for the urban buyers who had overslept.
Our evaluators among the attendees at the event singled out the Guyana School of Agriculture for what was felt to be its particularly eye-catching contribution to the event, its fresh foods and pleasing packaging meeting with widespread approval. The GSA also came in for particular praise from some of the agro processors who turned out at the Framers Market,’ confiding in us that the School had played an important part in their education.
As is customary, the energetic team from the Guyana Marketing Corporation did a more than their own fair share in terms of oversight.
