Members of the Corentyne Youth Farmers Corp Society will soon benefit from much needed drainage works which will allow them to harvest two crops per year. During an outreach earlier today to Corentyne, Berbice, Agriculture Minister Noel Holder, who was accompanied by Junior Finance Minister, Jaipaul Sharma and other officials,…
The Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA), through the successful implementation of its Genetic Improvement Program, has been making invaluable contributions to the development of the swine and small ruminant sector. Through the introduction of several programmes to redesign and re-establish the sector, farmers have the opportunity to better appeal to…
A group of investors are eyeing Guyana’s arable lands to invest in Oil Palm cultivation. Today, a team of investors from Agro Atlantic (Guyana) Inc. called on Agriculture Minister, Noel Holder in his Regent and Shiv Chanderpaul Drive office to discuss the prospects of Oil Palm in Guyana. The Minister…
The Ministry of Agriculture’s Hydromet Officer has issued a call for residents to conserve water as Guyana’s begins the transition into the Secondary Dry Season. Chief Hydromet Officer (ag.), Dr. Garvin Cummings has stated that while the Met office will be closely monitoring the situation and will be providing an…
The need for potatoes to be cultivated on a large scale basis in Guyana is evident as several partnership proposals have been received by the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) from private investors. This is in light of several successful trials undertaken by the institution over the past…
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today hosted a National Dialogue for the upcoming 35th FAO Regional Conference of Latin America and the Caribbean, garnering the inputs from stakeholders on regional issues which will be addressed during its conference schedule for March 5 to 8 in Montego Bay,…
The recent vandalism of 18 bearing coconut trees by persons at Hope Estate is a cause for concern and one which the Ministry of Agriculture will not sit by idly and allow to happen. One person has since been arrested for the poisoning of the coconut trees and is cooperating…
The Ministry of Agriculture’s Hope Coconut Industries Limited (HCIL) is maintaining its action to issue notices to farmers who are in arrears. HCIL is of the view that the rent being requested from rice farmers are in keeping with the First Schedule, Rice Farmers (Security of Tenure) Act. Chap. 96:02….
