-electricity production, other prospects being explored for sugar industry Some $5billion has been earmarked in the 2020 National Budget for the revamping of the sugar industry, which was torpedoed by the APNU+AFC Government. Since taking office in 2015, the now-ousted APNU+AFC Administration had sought to destroy the sugar industry to…
–Minister Mustapha −report for Cabinet before funding The Government intends to reopen the Enmore, Rose Hall and Skeldon sugar estates, but the decision on which will open first depends on a survey currently being conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture. Line Minister, the Hon. Zulfikar Mustapha said funds would…
Gov’t to establish coconut nursery at Charity The coconut industry is set to benefit from several immediate Government interventions when the 4-months emergency budget is passed in the National Assembly in the coming weeks. During an outreach to the Essequibo Coast, Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha met with a number of…
As agriculture Minister hosts stakeholders meeting with Reg. 2 rice farmers, millers Farmers along the Essequibo Coast, today met with Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha and expressed their dissatisfaction with the lengthy periods they are forced to wait for payment for paddy from millers. During several meetings in the Region, Minister…
-$5billion assigned to GuySuCo -closed estates to reopened, jobs to be created -$18.4billion allocated to agriculture sector The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GuySuCo) will be receiving $5billion from the Government’s new budgetary measures to rejuvenate the sugar industry, reopen the closed estates, and essentially, recreate employment. President of the Cooperative…
– MP Seeraj pleased Gov’t has given tax breaks to farmers Member of Parliament and General Secretary of the Guyana Rice Producers Association, Dharamkumar Seeraj, lauded the proposed $18.4 billion budgetary allocation for the agriculture sector, noting that it will create an enabling environment for farmers to increase production. MP Seeraj,…
─ $9Billion to assist with D&I ─ $112.9Million to aid rice farmers ─ no more VAT on fertilisers, agro-chemicals and pesticides After struggling for the last five years, Guyana’s Agriculture Sector is set for a major boost as $18.4Billion is being pumped into the sector to aid in revitalising and revamping…
IN supporting CARICOM countries’ access to climate and environmental financing, Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha, met recently with the AMEXCID-FAO technical teams from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Sub-Regional offices in the Caribbean. At the online meeting also was the minister’s technical team, along with Ambassador Jose Omar Hurtado Contreras,…
