While local produce, including a variety of root vegetables and tropical fruits are typically available, businesses have continued to rely on imported produce for their needs, particularly due to concerns surrounding quality and consistency.
Alquimi and its technology entity, Island AgTech partnered with Canadian-based Sprung Structures Ltd., an engineering and manufacturing company specialising in stressed membrane engineering. “Sprung has delivered thousands of structures in over 90 countries, many of them in hurricane and typhoon locations, so when we explained what we needed they came through for us.”
According to Birkhoff, the greenhouse system can be operational within 30 days, with first harvests of leafy green crops coming out about 26-days later. Island Growers farms will be USDA Organic Certified with produce certified by GlobalGap. Produce will meet all GFSI, GlobalGap, and SQF food quality ratings that many commercial buyers across the region require, thus creating an opportunity for intra-regional trade.
The company has recently secured expansion debt financing by Republic Bank Investment Group, headquartered in Trinidad and Tobago, which will provide $3 million Phase 2 financing for each project across the region, and Guardian Group, also located in Trinidad and Tobago, has agreed to insure all of the company’s greenhouse farm projects. This is the first time that the Guardian Group has insured greenhouse farms in the Caribbean.
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