Local Market location

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  • 13/03/2025 at 12:13 pm #8828
    Akira Ellis
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      In the brief, it’s mentioned that farmers are sometimes unable to sell product at the local market. Do farmers sell their produce in the local villages? or do they tend to travel to one of the larger towns like Liquica to sell their goods.

      13/03/2025 at 4:51 pm #8837
      Anthony Brady
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        Hi Akira,

        There are some opportunities to sell produce in the villages but these are limited. Larger towns like Liquiçá provide more opportunity but come with their own set of challenges. From our scoping trip, when speaking to a local farmer, he identified a range of challenges he faces including:

        • working on the mountainous terrain
        • finding people to purchase his produce / not knowing where to sell his produce
        • return on investment i.e. farming is currently very labour intensive and the market price of produce isn’t reflective of that
        • transportation of produce to market is also difficult especially when there is more produce than what one person can carry

        If you haven’t already, have a look through the 360 Interactives which has some more content relating to agriculture including the interview I mentioned above.

        Hope that helps.

        Cheers,
        Anthony

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