The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) has invested $109.7Million in the establishment of a state-of-the-art seed cleaning facility at the Burma Rice Research Station, in Region Five. The seed cleaner equipment cost $99.3Million while renovation to the existing building was completed for $10.4Million. On Wednesday , Minister of Agriculture, the…
A $7.3Million 30-seater school bus has been handed over to the community of Burma in the Mahaica-Berbice region. The Ministry of Agriculture through the Mahaica Abary Rice Development Scheme and the Ministry of Public Infrastructure jointly donated the vehicle following a request from residents. The bus will serve students from…
Twenty-four residents of Kwakwani Upper Demerara- Berbice, on Friday received leases from the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC) for the very first time. The leases were presented by Minister within the Ministry of Agriculture Hon. Valarie Yearwood and Manager of the Commission’s Secretariat, Durwin Humphrey who represented GLSC Commissioner…
SEVERAL nonagenarians of Linden were recently honoured by the Minister within the Ministry of Agriculture, Valerie Adams-Yearwood for their contribution to the development of the mining town over the years. The occasion saw 10 seniors who would have played a critical role in the development of their communities being visited…
―Wales Estate to receive US$2M Agro-Industrial Park ―“We are on the right path to success” – Min. Valerie Yearwood The National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) has announced plans to establish an agro-industrial park at the Wales Sugar Estate on the West Bank Demerara. The venture is a collaboration…
─Agri Ministry awards kitchen garden contest winners The Ministry of Agriculture Rural Affairs Secretariat brought down the curtains on its Kitchen Garden competition with the announcement of the winners on Friday. Seventy gardens were judged and the overall winners are in first place Frank Moore from Region 10 while…
– weather and climate monitoring and prediction to be expanded (Hydromet Department Release) Guyana is significantly vulnerable to natural disasters caused by Hydrometeorological phenomena, such as floods, thunderstorms and droughts. This vulnerability urges the Guyanese government to be equipped with a real-time monitoring, prediction and prevention of weather-related risks system to better respond to…
Several former sugar workers of the Wales estate have expressed thanks to NICIL for affording them lands so that they can do farming. The workers who were all terminated when the Wales estate closed, said that they turned to farming recognizing that with sugar no longer profitable it was time…
