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The nutritional facts of Black-eyed Peas (Cow Pea).
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National One Health Project Launch
Plaisance/Sparendaam Community Centre Ground Hon. Noel Holder, Minister of Agriculture April 22, 2016 Mr. Chairperson Fellow Ministers Project Partners of the ACP/EU funded project ‘One Health, One Caribbean, One Love’ Mr. Jesus Orus Baguena, Minister Counselor, Head of Cooperation Delegation of the EU to Jamaica, Belize, the Bahamas, Turks and…
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Health Benefits of Limes.
Rice industry has fared well despite El Nino effects – GRDB General Manager
General Manager of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), Nizam Hassan said that of the projected 91,072 hectares for the first rice crop, 61 percent or 47,000 hectares has been harvested. “We are looking good in terms 0f the overall yield notwithstanding that El Nino has had an effect on production……
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Benefits of Coconut Oil.
Coconut industry presents opportunity for agro-processors
Guyana has been promoting the coconut sector as an industry to capture the array of products including coconut water, virgin coconut oil, activated carbon and crafts that could be competitively produced. This was related by Dr. Oudho Homenauth, Chief Executive Officer of the National Agricultural Research & Extension Institute (NAREI),…
The East Demerara Estate Integration
The LBI factory was closed in March, 2011. This would have been an attempt to integrate the LBI and Enmore Estates into one production entity to optimize the use of the limited pool of labour. The factories at both estates, at the time, were significantly under-utilized as a result of…
Agriculture Minister steadfast on restoring dairy industry
Agriculture minister Noel Holder today met with a team from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to further discuss IDB’s willingness to provide assistance in funding agricultural projects in the Intermediate Savannahs. As part of the mandate to push agriculture as a business and develop agricultural practices in the interior regions…
