Over the next five days, the Hydromet Department will be facilitating a workshop Guyana’s ability to develop Participatory Integrated Climate Services of Agriculture (PICSA). The training, which is funded through the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Programme for Building Regional Climate Capacity in the Caribbean Programme (BRCCC Programme)…
The rainy season has come a few weeks earlier than usual, but the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA), had already started to implement flood-mitigation measures to save farmlands and livestock. Chief Executive Officer (CEO), NDIA, Frederick Flatts today, briefed the Government Information Agency (GINA), on the works, the agency…
May Bulletin 2017
The government has made provisions for workers in the sugar industry, even as it plans to downsize sugar production in the future. Minister of Agriculture Noel Holder on Monday, presented the State Paper on the future of the sugar industry to the National Assembly. Minister Holder noted that the Guyana…
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In order to effectively carry out its functions as a body corporate, sufficient drainage and irrigation and land rent charges must be collected by the MMA/ADA to facilitate further development of the agricultural sector. This was highlighted during the debate on the opposition’s motion to suspend the implementation of new…
Monday May 8, 2017 Mr. Speaker, as I make my contribution to the debate on this motion, permit me to remind this Honourable House of relevant particulars regarding the Authority in question and matters thereto appertaining. The Mahaica Mahaicony Abary water control project was conceived for facilitating the complete agricultural…
State Paper on the Future of the Sugar Industry presented to the National Assembly by The Hon. Noel L. Holder, MP Minister of Agriculture The future of the Sugar Industry The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GUYSUCO) is a wholly-owned Guyana State enterprise that operates the sugar industry. GUYSUCO, instead…
