The contractions for the first half of 2016 for the Agriculture Ministry are as a result of the impacts the sector faced due to El Nino, which could have seen famers more negatively affected had it not been for financial injection by the sector agencies. El Nino impacts, despite nothing…
The Better Hope to Sparendaam sea shore has seen an increase of natural mangrove regeneration. This was discovered through the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute’s (NAREI) monitoring of the plants. NAREI will now be planting seedlings in this area to support and speed up the mangrove re-development process. Kean…
The problems associated with the shifting Hope Canal Bridge located at Hope on the East Coast of Demerara are a result of poor design and not the failure of the contractor, Minister of Agriculture, Noel Holder said. The minister stated that records show that DIPCON Engineering Company, the contractor of…
Actions by the previous National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) Board of Directors remains detrimental, as now the Ministry of Agriculture is forced to make additional financial inputs into to Hope Canal Bridge to rectify substandard works. DIPCON Engineering company which was responsible for the construction of the bridge, expressed…
The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) wishes to respond to the article published in the Guyana Chronicle newspapers dated August 4, 2016 titled: “LBI workers picket GuySuCo over transfer to Enmore”. Firstly, the Corporation wishes to state that its current financial circumstances has made it imperative to review and revise the…
The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) wishes to Respond to the article published in the Guyana Times newspapers dated August 4, 2016 titled: GuySuCo threatens to cut water supply to 700 Crabwood Creek Farmers’. In 2012, the Skeldon Estate management granted permission to the Crabwood Creek Water Users’ Association to install…
Officials at the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) last evening confiscated several dogs which entered Guyana illegally, breaching the authority’s quarantine regulations. Such an act remains a serious one, as it can pose grave health threats to the nation at large; as some animals are often exposed to diseases which…
The Ministry of Agriculture is intensifying efforts to increase land rates, and to recoup billions of dollars outstanding for land rates and irrigation fees owed to the Mahaica, Mahaicony Abary Agriculture Development Authority (MMA/ADA). Information emanating from the Ministry of Agriculture indicates that a white paper seeking Cabinet’s approval to…
