Salada Foods Jamaica has purchased 60 per cent of the 25000 boxes of coffee cherries its pledged to buy from Blue Mountain coffee farmers
A statement from the company says the coffee cherries were purchased at $4,000 a box and together with the local processing from cherries to green beans, represent a $120 million injection into the industry to date.
General Manager of Salada Foods Jamaica Dianna Blake-Bennett, says the company now has three main coffee cherry buying parishes: St. Andrew, St. Thomas and Portland with approximately 13 depots in operation.
Among the depots are those operated by Stoneleigh Coffee Processors which Salada Foods has entered into a partnership to process cherries to green beans.
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