-Nicky’s Natural Fruit Juices

It is often questionable when buying pure local fruit juices from just any producer. However, this is not the case with agro-processor/famer/ businessman, Damion Da Silva, whose fresh, natural, pure local fruit juices come directly from his own farm to his processing plant.

The local pure fresh fruit juices are not watered down and sugary – instead, they are of excellent quality with no additives, sugars or preservatives, always fresh to the taste.

Nicky’s Natural Fruit Juices, all juices made from pure filtered water and the fruits are from Da Silva’s 75-acre farm at Lookout Backdam, Parika, East Bank Essequibo.

Da Sliva told the Pepperpot Magazine that he lives in the city and his processing plant is located at Camp Street between Norton and Princes Streets, Georgetown and he employs six persons at the factory.

At his fruit farm, he employs six permanent workers and when it is time to pick cherries, he would employ seven to 10 single mothers for the job.

The father of four reported that he has been farming for the past 25 years and his crops include all fresh locally-grown fruits, including citrus used for his juice-making business.

Da Silva added that the brand, Nicky’s was named after his eldest niece and his small business grew in recent times from a small grocery shop where he used to make six cups of pure fresh fruit juices to sell.

He stated that over time, he would make for himself only six cups of pure, fresh local juice and then his business began to flourish when customers began demanding more of the juices.

Da Silva told the Pepperpot Magazine that his juice-making business started 28 years ago from six cups of pure fruit juice per day.

He reported that customers kept demanding more and he was forced to think big and expand his small business from his small grocery shop attached to his home to a processing facility.

The owner of Nicky’s Natural Fruit Juices pointed out that he has a juice outlet at City Mall on Regent and Camp Streets.

On his farm, he has thousands of fruit trees and the juices are processed to make pure, natural fruit juices in mango, papaya, soursop, coconut water, cherries, oranges, lime, lemons, and guava among others.

Da Silva disclosed that he is hoping his business will expand into ice cream making from fruit flavoured, and it is in the making.

He reported that he also supplies juice machines and juice dispensers for all events, including buffet and other functions which caters for large gatherings.

Da Silva disclosed that when he started in the natural fruit juices business, he depended on vendors to supply them with various fresh fruits for their products.

But, they soon found that most of the local vendors on whom they depended were unreliable, and this was threatening the viability of the small business.

So, some years ago, he decided to cultivate their own fruits for their business at Lot 7 Camp Street, Werk-en-Rust.

Da Silva acquired some farm lands, and he began cultivating all local fruits for his juice business, and it is been going well since.

“We grow our own soursop, oranges, guavas, cherries, passion fruit, tangerines, pineapples, papaws, carambola, mangoes, limes, golden apples, and sugar cane, just to name a few because we have thousands of fruit trees. So, our business is really like a movement of fresh fruits from our farm at the back of Parika, to our business in Georgetown, where they are processed to make fruit juices and fruit-flavoured ice-cream,” Da Silva disclosed.

He said all his products are made from local fruits, one hundred percent pure, natural, properly processed, refreshing and nutritious.