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GRDB Extension Officers were actively involved with farmers to rid paddy bug infestation -several field meetings held
Officials of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) have been working round-the-clock to tackle the recent events of paddy bug infestation in Region Two, compared to what was released in the media of the GRDB’s non-involvement. Field visits were conducted by extension officers of the GRDB, apart from a daily…
Contraction in rice, sugar sectors linked to El Nino impact
The contractions for the first half of 2016 for the Agriculture Ministry are as a result of the impacts the sector faced due to El Nino, which could have seen famers more negatively affected had it not been for financial injection by the sector agencies. El Nino impacts, despite nothing…
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Practices Used to Manage Systems Interactions in an Organic System.
$306.7M supplementary spending cleared for Agriculture Ministry
The National Assembly at its final sitting last evening, before the recess approved a supplementary budgetary sum of $306,716,110 for the Ministry of Agriculture as part of contingency funds advanced for the period ending July 28, 2016. The amount approved represents a sum of $234,716,110 as provision for expenditure associated…
Guyana avoid CITES sanctions – Wildlife Bill passed with amendments
Guyana is now in compliance with the Convention on International Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) with the passage of the Wildlife Conservation and Management Bill 2016 late last evening in the National Assembly. Presenting the Bill for a second time in the House followed by its examination…
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Principles and Practices of Organic Farming
NAREI to speed-up mangroves’ regeneration at Better Hope to Sparendaam
The Better Hope to Sparendaam sea shore has seen an increase of natural mangrove regeneration. This was discovered through the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute’s (NAREI) monitoring of the plants. NAREI will now be planting seedlings in this area to support and speed up the mangrove re-development process. Kean…
