Even as the various product displays including the UNCAPPED event continues to provide evidence of potential for further growth in the country’s agro processing sector, small and medium scale investors remain concerned that the extent of their investments are not matched by opportunities to access lucrative international markets the returns from which make those investments worthwhile.
While the optics of this year’s UNCAPPED event provide evidence of increased manufacturer investment in enhancing product quality and improving packaging and labeling standards in order to ensure that product quality and presentation meet external market expectations, those efforts, we were told, are not paralleled by corresponding external market opportunities that allow for small and medium scale investors to access markets that can maximize opportunities for securing meaningful returns on what they say are their increasingly substantial investments.