Nigel Benjamin, CEO of RansBriya Greenhouse Producers Limited, is about to embark on a $200-million expansion of his Douglas Castle, Clarendon, farm as he seeks to make his operation more efficient to meet demand for his products, the latest in his journey into a career he said he developed a passion for when he was a child.
"I grew up in a farming community in northern Clarendon, a community known as Douglas Castle, close to Kellits. I grew up watching my father who was a farmer and from then I had a passion for farming," Benjamin told the Jamaica Observer in an interview Tuesday.
He said while growing up he would help his father around the farm and was even given his own half-acre plot to grow his own vegetables which he tended to before he went to school each day and after he returned home. His father, who has since retired from farming due to advancing years and has since opened a farm store in Kellits, supplied hotels and other places with produce and made a good life from it, though, according to Benjamin, he had no tertiary-level education.
"After leaving high school, I didn't further my education, I went straight into farming where I started to farm for myself and supply restaurants and hotels in Montego Bay," he said, acknowledging that he followed his father's footsteps.
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