St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister made special Interest visit to the Guyana Marketing Corporation’s Guyana Shop during CARICOM Heads of Government Intersessional meeting

The twenty-eighth Inter-sessional meeting of CARICOM heads of Government was recently held at the Marriott Hotel. During this meeting, the Guyana Marketing Corporation was privileged to have a booth containing fresh fruits and vegetable and our some locally manufactured Agro-processed products on display at the Marriott Hotel Guyana. Heads of…

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Extension, field officers trained in climate information – will in turn train farmers

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Guyana, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture organisation (FAO), is hosting a two- day workshop, focusing on mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management/Disaster Risk Reduction (DRM/DRR) in the local agriculture sector. A group of extension and field officers representing various stakeholder ministries and agencies…

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GuySuCo Board approved 14 private cane farmers to be given lands for sugar cane cultivation – as gov’t continues to promote entrepreneurship

The Board of  Directors of the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GuySuCo) has given approval for lands to be awarded to 14 private cane farmers to commence the cultivation of sugar canes at Uitvlugt. These farmers were previously supplying the Wales Estate with canes and this new initiative by government will…

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