Category: NEWS
Rice remains everyone’s business – Mustapha tells Region Two farmers

– farmers, millers offered 35% reduction on ferry cost – farmers receive chemicals, fertilizers Following requests by farmers, millers and Regional Officials from Region Two for government to assist with issues faced in the rice sector on the Essequibo Coast, Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha on two separate occasions today had…
GENEQUIP donates Whaly Polyethylene boat to Agri Ministry

Today, General Equipment Guyana Limited (GENEQUIP) handed over a Whaly 435R polyethylene boat to Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha, to be used by the Ministry for the execution of agriculture development services. The donation, which also included an engine was valued at GY $2.4M. Managing Director of GENEQUIP, Renger van Dijk…
Agriculture Minister remembers slain Rose Hall sugar workers with a wreath-laying ceremony

Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha, along with several officials from the Regional Executive Office in Region Six, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), and the Guyana Agriculture Workers Union (GAWU) on Saturday last paid homage to the fifteen (15) sugar workers who are referred to as the Rose Hall Martyrs, after they…
Berbice fishermen excited about Guyana’s future in aquaculture
Deplorable dams, access roads, land disputes among issues raised at Mora Point

– Min. Mustapha commits to sending additional machine to carry out works next Tuesday – residents told works on access road has commenced Residents and farmers from along the Mahaicony River, Berbice met with Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha hoping for some form of resolution to several issues faced in the…
Farmers can look forward to higher prices with new Biofortified rice – Min. Mustapha

– says this is the type of ‘value added’ produce that will set Guyana apart from other agriculture producing countries With Guyana one step closer to introducing a biofortified rice variety to the local, regional and Latin American markets, rice farmers can expect higher prices for this variety given the…
New NAREI head tasked with developing new and innovative ways to improve services offered

– new CEO (ag) says improvements needed in services offered to farmers; science must be incorporated into extension services Former head of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRD), Jagnarine Singh, has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) (ag) of the National Agriculture Research and Extension Institute (NAREI)….