─ Guyana Marketing Corporation As Guyanese continue with their shopping and preparation for the festive season, the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) has been keeping tabs on the ‘relative prices’ of commodities across the major markets in the country. These price checks are in keeping with how government interventions are helping to…
The Ministry of Agriculture on Monday teamed up with the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) to distribute hampers to the flood-affected residents of Little Diamond, on the East Bank of Demerara. The exercise is a follow-up to a previous visit by Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha, where he committed to making interventions…
– Livestock, crop officers assessing farmers’ losses to provide support Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha on Monday met with farmers and residents of Mocha Arcadia, East Bank Demerara as a follow-up to a commitment made last Saturday, to address agriculture-related concerns. The farmers expressed drainage concerns, noting that the heavy…
-Intervention to help communities experiencing flooding Several pumps are to be deployed along the East Bank corridor to help with the drainage of communities experiencing flooding as a result of heavy rainfall within the last 24 hours. Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha on Saturday visited several communities including Peter’s Hall, Providence,…
Large-scale cattle farmers from Regions Two, Three, Four, Five, and Six signed agreements with the Ministry of Agriculture’s Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) for the use of breeding bulls to improve their stock. The initiative forms part of the agency’s genetic improvement programme as the government works towards developing the…
Today, farmers from various farmers’ groups from Moruca, Region One (Barima – Waini) benefitted from a number of inputs to boost their productive capacity. Agriculture Minister, Honourable Zulfikar Mustapha, along with other officials from the ministry visited the region to distribute the items. Prior to today’s visit, Minister Mustapha had…
─ other small-scale livestock farmers to benefit The Ministry of Agriculture on Saturday distributed 25 black giant chicks and a bag of feed each to some 30 residents, including single parents and vulnerable farmers, from Mon Choisi village in Region Five, (Mahaica-Berbice). Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha told the farmers that as their…
as gov’t continues to push value-added production The Government of Guyana, in an effort to further commercialize value-added production through agro-processing, has been working to establish agro-processing facilities across the country. Today, Agriculture Minister, Honourable Zulfikar Mustapha commissioned a state-of-the-art agro-processing facility at Fort Wellington, West Coast Berbice (Region Five)….
