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Among them are the state trading enterprise, meat
department and food promotion unit. Its retail opera-
tions include Carmeta's Meat Shop in the capital city
of Bridgetown, the Duty Free Shop at Grantley Adams
International Airport and the farm inputs shops at Fairy
Valley and Spring Hall.
BADMC’s products include the Carmeta's family of lo-
cally grown and processed foods, which include gluten-
free flours, pancake mix, beef sausages and burgers,
lamb sausages and fresh juices.
The corporation was formed by combining two exist-
ing operations – one which was involved in produc-
tion, the other in marketing – in 1993, with the idea
that the overall agricultural sector in Barbados would
ultimately be benefited more by a strong unified entity
than with separate organizations whose individual fi-
nancial fortunes weren’t necessarily similar.
The pairing was made official on Sept. 1, 1993 and
has continued since.
“At first, one was so deep in debt and the other had to
fully support that one, and it initially started to crash
– but eventually, after some restructuring, it started
AT A GLANCE
WHO:
Barbados Agricultural Development &
Marketing Corporation
WHAT:
Statutory corporation of the Barbadian
government’s Ministry of Agriculture, with prima-
ry responsibility for catalyzing non-sugar agribusi-
ness in the island nation
WHERE:
Corporate headquarters in Christ
Church, Barbados
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