300 chicks, 100 bags of feed donated, 2000 more birds/chicks and other genetic material to be donated by the end of September Emergency drainage works carried out Poultry farmer, Abdul Rasheed Latiff who suffered in excess of GY $4M in losses after his poultry farm was flooded last September, today…
– settling outstanding payments with interest, says Min. Mustapha. THE Panamanian Government has responded to Guyana, acknowledging the outstanding payments for rice and has committed to addressing those payments, but has requested to do so after COVID-19 subsides, Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha has confirmed. In an invited comment on Thursday,…
says diversification necessary to make industry profitable Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) General Secretary, Mr. Seepaul Narine, along with other officials from that Union and the National Association for Agricultural Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE), today met with Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha, to discuss several issues and areas…
The Ministers and Secretaries of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Food and Rural Development of the Americas reaffirmed their willingness to implement measures at the national, regional and hemispheric levels to guarantee food and nutritional security in the hemisphere, which has been put at risk by the Covid-19 pandemic and the economic…
See below the Performance Report for the Ministry of Agriculture 2015-2020 https://www.scribd.com/document/469028342/Ministry-of-Agriculture-s-Performance-Report-2015-2020
– Seedbed preparation, sowing and transplanting Kitchen waste is truly useful. Oftentimes, persons discard vegetable and fruit seeds as waste. But, seed is an expensive commodity that should not be tossed out. So, the next time you peel your fruits and vegetables extract the seeds. This could be the start…
Thirteen Caribbean Ministers of Agriculture participated in a videoconference with the Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), in which they discussed strategies to bolster agricultural activity and to safeguard the food supply amidst the ongoing health crisis, in a region that relies heavily on food…
─ amid current global pandemic Despite the impact of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) operations at the two Agro-Packaging facilities in Guyana continue. This is according to General Manager of the New Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC), Ida Sealey-Adams. “If a request is made to have one of our exporters to…
