Guyana is set to become the first Caribbean country to be a part of the Competitive Fund for Technical Cooperation (FonTc) Bio-inputs Agricultural Project, funded by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA). The project is aimed at developing the institutional framework for commercial bio-inputs for agricultural use. It…
Ways to cook Vegetables- Part 2
Officials of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) have been working round-the-clock to tackle the recent events of paddy bug infestation in Region Two, compared to what was released in the media of the GRDB’s non-involvement. Field visits were conducted by extension officers of the GRDB, apart from a daily…
The contractions for the first half of 2016 for the Agriculture Ministry are as a result of the impacts the sector faced due to El Nino, which could have seen famers more negatively affected had it not been for financial injection by the sector agencies. El Nino impacts, despite nothing…
Practices Used to Manage Systems Interactions in an Organic System.
The National Assembly at its final sitting last evening, before the recess approved a supplementary budgetary sum of $306,716,110 for the Ministry of Agriculture as part of contingency funds advanced for the period ending July 28, 2016. The amount approved represents a sum of $234,716,110 as provision for expenditure associated…
Guyana is now in compliance with the Convention on International Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) with the passage of the Wildlife Conservation and Management Bill 2016 late last evening in the National Assembly. Presenting the Bill for a second time in the House followed by its examination…
Principles and Practices of Organic Farming
