Official indifference to organizers’ concerns may threaten long-term viability of Mocha/Arcadia’s Farmers’ Market

.Mocha Co-operative Society Chairman Raeburn Jones

It would be difficult to find anywhere across the country a group of farmers and agro processors more resolute, more determined, than the members of the Mocha Arcadia Multipurpose Agriculture Co-operative Society (MAMPA).    On Sunday, the group staged its fourth Farmers’ Market this year, the sparseness of the fruits and vegetables on display to the limited numbers of buyers who drifted in and out of the market area over the hours of the event underscoring the impact of, first, the covid-19 pandemic and afterwards, the recent floods on the extent of the bounty that available for sale.