page_title: Calibishie
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: Calibishie / Economy
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context_page_description: Calibishie is a Village in Dominica. It is located on the northeast coast of the island, immediately to the east of the village of Hampstead. The Calibishie Coast Travel Area is thought by many to be the most scenic and unspoiled region of Dominica. The Calibishie Coast is one of the few areas in the world where you can travel from the seashore to rain forest in little more than a mile. Calibishie is home to Dominica's Batibou, Hampstead, Hodges, Point Baptiste, Turtle and Woodford Hill Beaches.
  The area has palm-fringed beaches, freshwater rivers with secluded bathing pools, waterfalls and dense rain forest with exotic birds and lush vegetation. Tourist attractions include cycling, snorkelling and scuba diving.
  A wide variety of accommodation is available along the coast. The local population is very friendly and quite a few small, local restaurants have begun to sprout up the meet the needs of growing tourism to the area.
context_section_description: Calibishie, like most of Dominica's villages, was traditionally a farming and fishing community.  Even with the growth of tourism, commercial businesses, and civil service jobs in recent decades, farming continues to play an important role in the local economy of Calibishie.  Since the 1992 discontinuation of preferential access of Dominican bananas to British markets, banana farmers in Calibishie have had to diversify their crops.  While bananas are still the most commonly seen crop grown on the ridges above the village, Calibishie farmers market a wide range of local crops, which, in addition to bananas, include fruits such as plantains, pineapple, coconut, passion fruit, papaya; ground provisions such as cassava, dasheen, potato, yam; vegetables such as lettuce, cabbage, carrots, parsley, celery, pumpkin, breadfruit, and tomatoes.  
  After several years without a local market, Calibishie village council chairman and farmer Froggy Peters re-launched the Saturday market in fall of 2012, and the community has enjoyed the market's growing success in the subsequent months.  Farmers yielding higher outputs sell their products to larger distributors in Roseau or neighbouring islands and international markets.  Fishing, while not as common as farming, is still a source of income for some residents of Calibishie.
caption: Calibishie coastline
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