KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, has lauded local producer of coffee “teabags’” Mountain Bliss Farm and Tours, describing the company’s product as the type of innovation that can further diversify the tourism and export markets.

The minister, who was in the Content Gap area of rural St Andrew, recently, where the company operates, says the product is “quality made”.

“It is the first time that I am seeing coffee in teabags, and I bought a sachet. I don’t need anybody to mix my coffee, I can now just draw my teabag in my hot water, and in seconds, I have a good Blue Mountain Coffee,” the minister said, after purchasing the product.

Underscoring that the product is of the highest “quality and grade”, Bartlett said he is proud of what Mountain Bliss has done, because “it is this kind of innovation that is going to help to drive value-added within our tourism space, and this can be exported to countries all around the world”.

The minister added that this must be encouraged, as more small businesses need to convert raw material to primary, secondary and tertiary products.

Co-owner of the business, Inez Wilson, said the coffee farm has been in operation for more than 10 years, and the coffee sachet (teabag) segment started just over one month ago, and it “is going nicely, and working”.

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