On Tuesday, rice farmers from Regions Two, Three, Five, and Six met with Agriculture Minister, Honourable Zulfikar Mustapha to discuss some of the issues faced in the industry. While noting that most of their issues are a result of unfavourable weather and external economic impacts, the farmers wasted no time…
Last Friday during this year’s first CARICOM Ministerial Taskforce (MTF) on Food Production and Food Security meeting, it was announced that Member States were collectively able to achieve 57% of the target set in keeping with realizing ‘Vision 25 by 2025’. The announcement comes after countries would’ve submitted reports detailing…
– To protect Guyana’s largest rice export market Rice farmers are advised to protect their rice crop and at the same time, protect the European Union (EU) market by complying with the Maximum Residue Limits (MRL) for various pesticides at different levels set by the EU. EU is Guyana’s largest export…
Average market prices over the three-week period, January 4 to 24, 2023, for selected livestock and non-traditional agricultural commodities, projected by the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC), show an easing in prices at some of the major markets across the country. GMC carried out checks at Kumaka, Anna Regina, Parika, Vreed-en-Hoop,…
The Rose Hall Sugar Estate is poised to make a grand comeback in 2023, with the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) Government dedicating some $1.195 billion towards aiding its reopening in the second crop of this year. The iconic property is among the sugar factories closed under the previous APNU+AFC…
– $33.2B budget for agri. sector successfully passed – $104M to be expended under mangrove sea defense at Danzig – expansion of brackish water shrimp project continues During day two of the consideration of estimates and expenditure for Budget 2023, the Ministry of Agriculture’s $33.2 billion budget was successfully passed. To date, this…
The People’s Progressive Party/Civic Government has set the record straight on the previous APNU+AFC Coalition’s mismanagement of the agriculture sector, revealing the discovery of some 16,000 bags of spoilt fertilisers, when this government took office in 2020. “Mr. Speaker, they talked about spoilt fertilisers, but let me say something, when…
With government’s continued commitment to support and promote investments in agro-processing, two new agro-processing facilities are expected to be established in Crabwood Creek and Orealla in Region Six, this year. The projects are critical elements of the administration’s push for enhanced food security and broad-based sustainable economic growth. And by…
