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 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…
Principles and Practices of Organic Farming
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…
ORGANIC CROPPING SYSTEMS
The push for more youths to join the agricultural sector resonated again yesterday when Minister of Agriculture, Noel Holder made the pitch as he addressed the graduating class of 2016 of the Guyana School of Agriculture’s(GSA) 52nd prize giving exercise. At the school at Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, Minister…
The problems associated with the shifting Hope Canal Bridge located at Hope on the East Coast of Demerara are a result of poor design and not the failure of the contractor, Minister of Agriculture, Noel Holder said. The minister stated that records show that DIPCON Engineering Company, the contractor of…
