Farmers in North Andros met with wholesalers, hoteliers, restaurateurs, chefs and delegates from the Ministry of Tourism and Aviation during a convention on the island last weekend.

Hosted by Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation (BAIC), it marked the second time buyers, mainly from New Providence, and farmers met to discuss the way forward in food production.

Lush winter vegetables grow in North Andros. (BIS Photo/Gladstone Thurston)

North Andros High School’s agriculture teacher Rai Budhu (left) shows delegates the school’s vegetable production. (BIS Photo/Gladstone Thurston)

Bahamas Culinary Association president, Michael Adderley (right), and Rosemary Sinclair, chef at Atlantis, inspect cabbages grown at Caleb Evans Farms, North Andros. (BIS Photo/Gladstone Thurston)

Delegates attending last weekend’s farmers/buyers meeting in Nicholl’s Town see the greenhouse technology offered at BAIC’s North Andros Agri-industrial Park. Pictured from left are Edwin Johnson (Bamboo Shack Group), Michael Adderley (president, Bahamas Culinary Association), Leona Johnson (purchasing manger, Atlantis), Rosemary Sinclair (chef, Atlantis), Deanne Gibson (manager, Culinary Tourism, Ministry of Tourism). (BIS Photo/Gladstone Thurston)