Fifty-one (51) youths hailing from multiple regions across Guyana have now graduated from a four-day Agro-Processing Training Programme at the Mon Repos Campus of the Guyana School of Agriculture, East Coast Demerara. The first batch comprised fifteen students while the second was made up of thirty six students, all of…
For the first time, the Board of Directors of the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) has been appointed to serve a two-year period. The life of the board will conclude on June 30, 2018. Previous boards were appointed by Cabinet for only one year. All members of the…
A Seabob Management Plan and Code of Conduct were completed and will be submitted to Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) in the third quarter of 2016 for external review. This has been outlined in the Ministry of Finance’s 2016, Mid-year report. The report states that the Seabob Working Group (SWG)…
“All the tests were negative. That confirms our suspicion that it wasn’t an outbreak of any particular disease, but it was a management issue,” Dr. Dwight Walrond, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) told the Government Information Agency (GINA), at the Authority’s Mon Repos, East…
Three floods which severely affected residents of Region Five was the impetus for the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority’s (NDIA) sole sourcing for the rehabilitation of the drainage pumps at Trafalgar to relieve flood-fatigued residents of further hardships. Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the NDIA, Frederick Flatts stated that…
It Government’s quest to diversify its agricultural production, Agriculture Minister, Noel Holder, on Wednesday, spearheaded an outreach exercise to the islands of Leguan and Wakenaam, Region Three. The exercise forms part of the Ministry of Agriculture’s mandate to better serve its farmers; by adequately addressing some of the ills affecting…
Georgetown, Guyana, August 15, 2016 (IICA). The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and the National Science and Technology Board of Mexico (CONACYT) signed an agreement on September 27, 2011 to establish a scholarship programme aimed at professionals from the agricultural sector in the hemisphere. The agreement provides on…
