NATIONAL WOMAN CHAMPION FARMER 2023-2024
DIANDRA ROWE – NATIONAL WOMAN CHAMPION FARMER 2023-2024 & CARICOM YOUNG CHAMPION FARMER OF THE YEAR 2023
DIANDRA ROWE is the managing director at Abbey Garden Farm , located in Kingsland, Manchester. She is a third-generation farmer who has been exposed to farming her entire life.
Diandra is a graduate of the University of Technology Jamaica, where she earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Hotel and Resort Management in the year 2012. After completing her studies, she worked in several jobs within the sales industry. Despite excelling within that field, she decided to step away in order to focus on the family’s greenhouse farm in January 2015.
Diandra believes that success is not an accident and dreams don’t become reality through magic. They require grit, determination, and hard work. For her work in the field of agriculture, she has won several awards, namely:
• 2017 National Champion Greenhouse Farmer
• 2017 Most Innovate Farm
• 2017 National Young Champion Farmer 2nd place
• 2017 IICA Agri-Tourism Award
• 2017 JAS 2nd place class A farm
• 2017 Prime Minister’s Youth
• Award for Excellence in Agriculture
• 2017/2018 National Youth Service Empowerment Programme Bronze Award
• 2018 National Champion Female Farmer
• 2018 Most Innovative Farm
• 2018 National Champion Greenhouse Farmer
• 2018-2019 Rotary Club of Mandeville vocational service award
• 2019 National Young Champion Farmer
• 2019 JAS Most Innovative Farmer
• 2019 National Greenhouse Champion Farmer
• 2019 National Champion Farmer 2nd place
• 2023 National Champion Greenhouse Farmer
• 2023 National Woman Champion Farmer
• 2023 National Champion Farmer 2nd place
• 2023 National Young Champion Farmer 2nd place
• 2023 CARICOM Young Farmer of the Year
Diandra is also a member of the Jamaica Greenhouse Growers Benevolent Society and a proud Nutramix Youth in Agriculture Ambassador. She also works closely with several schools from the primary to tertiary level by accommodating tours, work-experience programmes, and internships.
She has found farming to be a very fulfilling job, and she made it her point of duty to continue to make a positive impact on her community and the agriculture sector. It is her deepest desire to continue to expand the family business for the benefit of many generations to come.