–tells farmers recent intervention resulted in a reduction in fertilizer cost by 10% and 18% Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha on Wednesday, hosted a meeting with rice farmers from the Essequibo Coast, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam), to address concerns over the high price of fertilizer in the region. The farmers complained that…
– Close to 1,500 set to benefit from two-day distribution exercise Approximately $127 million in flood-relief grants will be distributed to farmers from several villages in Region One (Barima-Waini) who were affected by flooding earlier in the year. Ministers of Agriculture, Local Government and Regional Development and Housing and Water,…
– curriculum to be developed by mid-2022 The Ministry of Agriculture, in an effort to revamp the operations of the extension arm of its agencies, will, in 2022, introduce a curriculum designed to improve the effectiveness of its extension officers. Through the Guyana School of Agriculture (GSA), extension officers attached…
─ as Central Packaging Facility celebrates 21 years in operation The New Guyana Marketing Corporation’s (GMC) extension department has now been enhanced with the procurement of 13 new motorcycles. The dirt bikes will allow field workers to reach farmers in Regions Three, Four, Five and Six, specifically those operating in…
Today the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) received several pieces of equipment and operational manuals that will be used to improve its data collection and extension capabilities. These pieces of equipment, which were donated by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as part of a project aimed at…
Persons residing in Arakaka Village, Region One (Barima-Waini) can now look forward to reliable and improved power supply with the addition of a $15 million generator grid seeking to boost the village economy and overall standard of living of residents. On Wednesday last, while spearheading the government’s ongoing flood relief…
–as flood relief distribution kicks off in Region One Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha, on Wednesday, directed the distribution exercise for the government’s ongoing flood-relief distribution exercise in several villages in Region One (Barima Waini). Farmers from Arakaka, Matthew’s Ridge, and Baramita turned up in their numbers to the various distribution…
The Ministry of Agriculture on Tuesday signed seven contracts totaling $665,706,092 for a number of works to be carried out aimed at improving the agriculture sector. The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) signed a contract with Roopan Ramoutar Investments for the construction of a pump station at Greenwich Park/Barnwell…
