Islandwide cold-chain delivery
41 partner routes move goods across all 14 parishes in under 24 hours, with refrigerated handling from the nearest collection hub. Your harvest arrives the way it left the field.
For Producers in Jamaica
Sell direct. Earn 38% more per harvest. Keep the farm your family built.
FarmersMarket JA is the marketplace built so Jamaica's 8,200+ smallholder farmers, fisherfolk, and agro-processors list their harvest once and reach buyers across all 14 parishes — without the higglers' lane taking the cut.
RADA-verified vendor scheme
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Jamaica Agricultural Society endorsed
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JM$1.4B in 2023 sales
The earnings case
Producers earn 38% more per harvest than the higglers' lane pays.
That figure comes from a 2024 Jamaica Agri-Bureau study comparing the realised net price per kilogram across comparable produce sold through traditional middlemen versus direct-to-buyer listings on FarmersMarket JA. The gap is not a marketing number — it is the structural difference between selling once at the farm gate and selling direct to hotels, restaurants, retailers, and households across the island.
When you list a harvest with us, your goods move through our 7 regional collection hubs and our 41 partner cold-chain routes. You set the price floor, the buyer pays the platform fee, and the balance — minus a small flat commission — lands in your account within the standard 19-hour fulfilment window. No more selling green to a higgler who will grade your work down before it ever reaches town.
- Average delivery, order to door: 19 hours islandwide
- Active SKUs across the catalogue: 11,400+ from ackee to yellow yam
- Buyers pre-built for you: 312 hotel and restaurant procurement teams
How It Works
Three steps from the field to a paid harvest.
A verified application, a same-day listing, and a fulfilment network that already knows your parish.
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Apply for verified vendor status
Fill the short application below. Our 12 vendor success managers — most of them former RADA extension officers — review your parish, your crop or catch, and your basic records. Verification usually completes within 5 working days under the official RADA scheme we co-administer.
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List your harvest the same day you're verified
Use our mobile-friendly listing tool to upload a photo, name your parish of origin, set the price per kilo or per crate, and tag your goods with the right category. Most producers complete their first listing in under 20 minutes — and the QR code that gives buyers full traceability prints off automatically.
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Earn more on every harvest
Buyers order, your nearest collection hub sends a refrigerated truck, and your goods reach a kitchen, a hotel, or a household within 19 hours on average. Payment clears on fulfilment. Repeat weekly — most active vendors list 2 to 4 harvests a month and grow their order book inside a season.
What's behind the platform
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The infrastructure that turns a listing into a paid harvest.
Full farm-to-fork traceability
Every listing carries a QR code that buyers scan to see your parish, your harvest date, your grower profile, and your RADA verification status. Buyers pay a premium for traceable Jamaican-grown goods — and your goods qualify.
7 regional collection hubs
Kingston, Montego Bay, Mandeville, Ocho Rios, May Pen, Black River, and Port Antonio. Drop your harvest at the closest hub and we handle the route to the buyer. No more coordinating your own refrigerated transport.
312 hotel and restaurant buyers
Sandals Resorts, Jamaica Pegasus, Rainforest Foods, and hundreds more procurement teams order through the platform. Listing once opens your harvest to a buyer network you would otherwise spend years reaching by phone.
Producers on the platform
Three smallholders who turned their harvest into a direct-buy business.
Documented producer relationships — drawn from our vendor success team notes across 2024.
Yam · St. Ann Parish
Mr. Campbell's Yellow Yam Co-op
Six smallholders from a single St. Ann community now list their yellow yam harvest together. Before joining, they sold at the higglers' lane and rarely saw above JM$180 per kilo. Through FarmersMarket JA, the same yam reaches Kingston hotels and Ocho Rios restaurants at a verified net price the producers set themselves.
Fish · Portland Parish
Miss Joy's Port Antonio Catch
A small-scale fisher operation out of Port Antonio lists parrotfish, snapper, and lobster on the morning they land. Our Black River cold-chain route moves the catch to Kingston kitchens the same afternoon. Restaurants that used to wait two days for fresh Portland fish now order inside the 19-hour window.
Ackee · St. Catherine Parish
Ms. Reid's Ackee Pantry
A retired schoolteacher turned her family's ackee trees into a value-added business. She cleans, weighs, and jars under her own brand with a RADA food-handling verification. The platform's traceability QR lets diaspora buyers order through our diaspora partner routes and confirm the ackee is genuinely Jamaican-grown.
Institutional endorsement
Recognised by the institutions Jamaican producers already trust.
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Rural Agricultural Development Authority
Our vendor verification scheme is co-administered with RADA at the parish level, drawing on their existing extension officer network and their producer records across all 14 parishes.
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Jamaica Agricultural Society
The JAS formally endorses FarmersMarket JA as the preferred digital channel for smallholder listings. The society has represented Jamaican producers since 1895.
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Ministry of Agriculture — Grow Smart 2024
Featured in the Ministry's 2024 Grow Smart initiative as a model for digitising smallholder supply chains and connecting producers directly to commercial buyers.
Verified vendor application
Apply to list your harvest.
The application takes about 10 minutes. Our vendor success team will follow up within 5 working days to confirm verification under the RADA scheme and walk you through your first listing.
Or reach the team directly: [email protected] · +1 876 555 2810