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Organic commercial crops

70 To generate income and reduce tuition fees, the school grows and processes

Passionfruit and Banana, on six acres of land. Once harvested, the Passion Fruit is
processed into concentrated juice and is sold fresh and as pulp. Annually, 100.000
passion fruits are produced, which is made into 10.000 lbs of pulp. The Passion
Fruit and Banana production employs 5 people and supplies banana, passion
fruit juice and pulp to supermarkets and hotels around St. Vincent and the
Grenadines.

Passion Fruit production

In 2015, the passion fruit enterprise

became chemical free.

This outcome was achieved by removing the need to use herbicides and chemical
fertilizers between the passion rows. Now, a weed wacker and chicken tractors are
used to remove grass and weeds. The chickens also provide the soil with manure.