A first-of-its-kind, self-propelled Cutter Head Dredge valued at over $497 million was commissioned on Saturday at the Little Diamond Sluice to effectively execute drainage and irrigation works in farming communities along the East Bank corridor. This project is part of the government’s adaptive policy to climate change to mitigate flooding. …
– at launch of third Agri-Investment Forum and Expo To advance investment and innovative measures to attain CARICOM’s Vision 25 by 2025 target to reduce the region’s hefty food import bill, the third Agri-Investment Forum and Expo was launched on Friday at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre. The forum and…
$23.6M facility commissioned at Watooka Less than two weeks after commissioning an agro-processing facility in Karaudarnau Village in Region Nine, Agriculture Minister, Hon. Zulfikar Mustapha on Wednesday commissioned a similar facility in Watooka, Linden (Region 10). The Ministry of Agriculture through the New Guyana Marketing Corporation (New GMC) expended some…
Agriculture Minister, Hon. Zulfikar Mustapha on Saturday revealed that his ministry through the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) will commence construction of a sluice at Highbury on the East Bank of the Berbice River. The minister made this disclosure during a meeting with residents and farmers from Korthberaadt and…
Diversifying the agriculture sector and increasing crop production is a top the priority of government and with the vast savannahs of Region Nine, rice production is being expanded. Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha in a recent interview with the Department of Public Information said, “Places like Kumu, Moco Moco and Deep…
As Guyana embarks on an aggressive food security drive, the government is now looking to ramp up black-eye peas cultivation on 1,000 acres of land in Region One (Barima-Waini), which could eventually supply the CARICOM market. Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha made the disclosure on Monday on the sidelines of…
The Ministry of Agriculture will be rolling out the Black Belly Sheep programme shortly as 850 of the livestock have been received to date. This was disclosed by Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha during an interview on the sidelines of an event on Monday. Guyana recently received an additional 300 sheep from…
On Monday, thirty (30) small and medium-scale farmers from Region Four (Demerara–Mahaica) received inputs to boost their productions totalling some $3.3 million. This was made possible through funding from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) under Component Two of the Ministry of Agriculture’s Sustainable Agriculture Development Programme (SADP). Under Component Two…
