Farm and Func­tion Ltd is quick­ly emerg­ing as one of T&T’s most com­pelling agribusi­ness suc­cess sto­ries, fol­low­ing a dra­mat­ic res­cue and turn­around that has trans­formed the com­pa­ny from in­sol­ven­cy to rapid ex­pan­sion in less than a year—while plac­ing it at the cen­tre of a broad­er na­tion­al con­ver­sa­tion on food se­cu­ri­ty, im­port sub­sti­tu­tion and agri­cul­tur­al re­vival.

Lead­ing that trans­for­ma­tion is man­ag­ing di­rec­tor and CEO, Dr Mikaeel Mo­hammed, who stepped in at a crit­i­cal mo­ment in late 2025 to take con­trol of the strug­gling busi­ness.

“I got in­volved in it on the Plant­i­ng Seeds Caribbean in 2018 as a silent share­hold­er. The two co-founders asked me to be an in­vestor. I was a 25 per cent share­hold­er, but a silent in­vestor and then at the end of 2025, the busi­ness­es weren’t do­ing very well and they were in some fi­nan­cial trou­ble and the two co-founders reached out to me to ba­si­cal­ly take it over and get them out of the fi­nan­cial chal­lenges,” he shared with the Busi­ness Guardian.