Guyana Rice Development Board held consultations with farmers and farmers’ representatives towards the end of the second rice crop in 2015, with the aim of assisting farmers with reducing production costs of growing paddy. Following the decision by Venezuela to stop importing rice and paddy from Guyana, millers were…
The strategic objectives of the support services of the GRDB.
Opening Ceremony – Fourteenth Meeting of the Caribbean Fisheries Forum Hon. Noel Holder, Minister of Agriculture Ramada Georgetown Princess, Guyana 7- 8 April 2016 Mr. Chairperson, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, it is a pleasure for me to be asked to address you at this fourteenth meeting of the Caribbean Fisheries…
Representatives from the various Caribbean countries today gathered at the Ramada Georgetown Princess Hotel, for the Fourteenth Meeting of the Caribbean Fisheries Forum. The two-day event is aimed at compiling regional recommendations on the way forward for the Ministerial Council. It is also expected to create leeway for discussions on…
Brazilian firm, New Frontier Agriculture Incorporated will be commencing a large scale commercial production of soybean in Ebini, Region 10 shortly. Dr. Oudho Homenauth, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), National Agriculture Research and Extension Institute (NAREI), told the Government Information Agency (GINA) that “the investment…is coming to fruition, the investors are going there…
Minister of Agriculture Noel Holder today met with a team from the World Bank to discuss the progress of the Cunha Canal Rehabilitation project. The project was officially signed on in February 2016 at the Ministry of Finance by the Finance Minister and World Bank Representatives. It will see rehabilitation…
Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Office for Investment (GO-Invest) Owen Verwey, is advising investors that agro- processing is currently the leading option for investments in Guyana. Given that Guyana is a very natural resource-rich economy with the largest land mass in the Caribbean, Verwey told the Government Information Agency…
Call for Expression of Interest (EOI) 10th EDF Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) Project Support to the Caribbean forum of ACP States in the implementation of Commitments Undertaken under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA): Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Title of the EOI: Capacity Building of…
