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<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Vendors at Portmore market protest against farmers ' market ( RJR )...</span>
Friday's staging of the One-Day Farmers' Market at the Portmore HEART Academy, in St. Catherine, has left some vendors fuming.While shoppers and organisers have described the One-Day Farmers' Market as a success, the sentiment is not being shared by vendors who ply their wares at a nearby market, in Portmore.The placard-bearing vendors protested at their stalls Saturday morning, claiming that their sales are being affected by the One-Day Farmers' Market.They complained that they have not made any money since the staging of the event:"I've been selling here (in Portmore) for more than 23 years and (since) the farmers' market come, we can't sell anything. We've been here from 5 o'clock this morning and win uh sell no goods ... the farmers' market mash wi up."Wi buy the goods at Coronation Market, $20 (per pound) of tomato and wi have to come here back and sell it for $20 because that what they selling to for at the farmers' market. Wi nuh know what to do fi survive," said Clair Green, a market vendor in Portmore.The vendors say they are not opposed to the farmers' market, but insist that they have been selling at their current location for over two years and simply want their customers back.
<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Vendors at Portmore market protest against farmers ' market ( RJR )...</span>
Friday's staging of the One-Day Farmers' Market at the Portmore HEART Academy, in St. Catherine, has left some vendors fuming.While shoppers and organisers have described the One-Day Farmers' Market as a success, the sentiment is not being shared by vendors who ply their wares at a nearby market, in Portmore.The placard-bearing vendors protested at their stalls Saturday morning, claiming that their sales are being affected by the One-Day Farmers' Market.They complained that they have not made any money since the staging of the event:"I've been selling here (in Portmore) for more than 23 years and (since) the farmers' market come, we can't sell anything. We've been here from 5 o'clock this morning and win uh sell no goods ... the farmers' market mash wi up."Wi buy the goods at Coronation Market, $20 (per pound) of tomato and wi have to come here back and sell it for $20 because that what they selling to for at the farmers' market. Wi nuh know what to do fi survive," said Clair Green, a market vendor in Portmore.The vendors say they are not opposed to the farmers' market, but insist that they have been selling at their current location for over two years and simply want their customers back.