What HelloAG IS —
and what it is not.
HelloAG AgOS is not a farming app. It is not a market price website. It is Jamaica's Agricultural Operating System — a shared intelligence infrastructure that connects every actor in Jamaica's food supply chain through common data, a national food security index, and a market linkage platform that translates agricultural production into verifiable hotel and institutional procurement.
It is the data layer that has never existed before. The layer that connects what farmers produce to what buyers need, what government monitors, and what banks can lend against. It runs on 186,000 price records from RADA's Agricultural Marketing Information Bureau, updated every week from market agents across all 14 parishes. It computes Jamaica's Food Security Index — 74.2 as of this week — for the first time in Jamaica's history as a real number, not an estimate.
Jamaica has never had a real-time national food security number. As of 2026, it does. HelloAG computes it every Friday from live market data. It is 74.2 this week. Three parishes are below the critical threshold. Two of them are tourism capitals.
Four platforms in one
Real-time national FSI, parish-level supply risk, commodity volatility index, import dependency monitor, and disaster scenario planning — all updated weekly from live AMIB data.
TAII — Tourism Agricultural Intelligence Infrastructure. Links hotel procurement desks to verified Jamaican farmers via forward contracts, GS1 traceability, and delivery confirmation.
National farmer registry. Every enrolled farmer receives a HAG-ID and ABRS creditworthiness score — making smallholders visible to banks, exporters, and hotels for the first time.
What the Prime Minister's
office would see.
The following six dashboards are the government-specific intelligence tools within HelloAG. Each is live at this moment and can be demonstrated in real time during this briefing. All data is sourced from AMIB, updated weekly, and computed against Jamaica's actual agricultural and trade data.
Jamaica's first real-time FSI. Four components: price stability, supply availability, food access, climate risk. National score: 74.2. Parish scores for all 14 parishes. Updated every Friday.
Select a disaster scenario — Hurricane Cat 4, drought, flooding, import disruption — and see the real economic impact on Jamaica's food supply in under 2 seconds. Built for Cabinet-level emergency planning.
Jamaica's US$840M annual food import bill tracked and dissected by commodity. US$310M substitution opportunity mapped. J$29B five-year forex retention target modelled.
Price instability index across 12 commodity categories. Current CVI: 31 — Elevated. Thyme and Scotch Bonnet driving 62% of national volatility. Early warning is 8 days ahead of retail markets.
All intelligence feeds in one Bloomberg-style national food security situation room. Live KPIs, alert ticker, parish risk map, and commodity feeds updated in real time.
Jamaica's national harvest calendar, agro-ecological zone classification, production cluster mapping, and parish-level supply estimates — the production intelligence layer under the FSI.
Why this matters
in numbers.
The case for government engagement with HelloAG is not technological. It is economic. Jamaica's food import bill is a structural drain on foreign exchange reserves. The tourism sector — the country's primary foreign exchange earner — is simultaneously the country's largest institutional food buyer, importing produce that Jamaican farmers grow. The numbers below are computed from live AMIB data and the HelloAG platform, not estimates.
| Scenario | Local Sourcing % | Year 1–5 Substitution | Forex Retained | FSI Impact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline (no intervention) | 32% | US$0 | J$0 | 74.2 → 71.8 |
| Moderate (TEF TAII adoption) | 50% by 2028 | US$119M | J$18.5B | 74.2 → 77.4 |
| Accelerated (national programme) | 65% by 2030 | US$267M | J$29B+ | 74.2 → 82.1 |
The disaster planning case
Jamaica spent J$62 billion on post-hurricane agricultural recovery between 2004 and 2024. Every dollar of that recovery cost was preceded by a period in which government had no real-time food security intelligence to guide emergency response — no national FSI to monitor, no Digital Twin to model impact, no parish-level risk data to direct resources.
HelloAG's Digital Twin can model a Category 4 hurricane's impact on Jamaica's food supply in under 2 seconds, using real parish production data and real commodity price records. It calculates production loss, import requirements, parish-level risk, and price impact before a storm makes landfall. This capability exists now, at no additional cost to Government, and requires only an institutional endorsement to activate as a national emergency planning tool.
The seven-minute
platform demonstration.
The following sequence demonstrates the platform's core government-relevant capabilities in under seven minutes. Each step links to a live URL. The data shown is real — sourced from AMIB and updated weekly.
"This is helloagriculture.com — launched in 2026 as Jamaica's Agricultural Operating System. What you are looking at is not a farming app. It is the intelligence infrastructure layer that Jamaica's food supply chain has never had."
"74.2. That is Jamaica's Food Security Index as of this week. For the first time in Jamaica's history, that is a real computed number — not an estimate. It comes from actual price data from AMIB market agents in all 14 parishes, updated every Friday. Three parishes are below 70. Two of them — St. James and Trelawny — are our primary tourism parishes."
"US$840 million per year. That is Jamaica's food import bill. This dashboard breaks it down by commodity. US$310 million of that is what we could substitute with local production in five years — if we have the infrastructure to connect farmers to buyers. That J$29 billion stays in Jamaica. This is what HelloAG is designed to deliver."
"I am going to run a simulation. Category 4 hurricane. Wet season. All 14 parishes." [click Run] "FSI drops 16 points — from 74 to 58. J$2.8 billion in agricultural economic loss. 42,000 metric tons of emergency imports required. Six parishes at critical risk. This calculation takes 2 seconds. Every government needs this capability before the storm, not after it."
"32% of Jamaica's hotel food is imported despite local production capacity. This dashboard shows which commodities and which parishes have the greatest supply gap. TAII links hotel procurement directly to verified Jamaican farmers — the same farmers registered in our Sentinel system with HAG-IDs and ABRS creditworthiness scores. This is how J$29 billion stays in Jamaica."
"This is the one-page government brief — the document designed for Cabinet review. It has the four asks we are making of Government: institutional endorsement, the RADA data agreement, the national farmer registration drive, and adopting the FSI as a national KPI. None of these require public expenditure. They require institutional will."
"We are exhibiting at Denbigh Agricultural Show — August 1st to 5th. This is Jamaica's largest agricultural event. A ministerial presence at our booth on opening day signals Government's endorsement of the platform to every farmer, cooperative, hotel buyer, and institutional visitor at the show. It costs nothing and signals everything."
Four asks. No budget
required from Government.
HelloAG is not requesting government funding. The platform is built, the infrastructure is deployed, and the pilot is operational. The four requests below are institutional — the kind that create enabling conditions for national scale without public expenditure. Each can be actioned independently.
From endorsement
to CARICOM scale.
The team
behind HelloAG.
M.P.S. Controlled Environment Agriculture — Cornell University
B.Sc. International Agriculture — Cornell University