Farm queen gets her hands dirty

published: Saturday | June 21, 2008 Entrepreneur, Karen Tamasa, prepares a plot of land to be used in the cultivation of vegetables. Tamasa supplies packaged vegetables to supermarkets in Kingston and St Mary. - Contributed Her entrance into the agricultural sector was purely by choice. Now, she is reaping real rewards from making that decision and has achieved more than many twice her age. Twenty-one-year-old Karen Tamasa is not your typical female. While other young women her age seek to get an education, she has become an avid businesswoman with a purpose, one who aspires to satisfy the local market with seasoned pre-packaged vegetables through her company, Easy Way Farm, located in Highgate, St Mary. Her interest in business, particularly agriculture, stemmed not only from a love for the sector, but from exposure to the... [read full story]