Guyana Rice Development Board held consultations with farmers and farmers’ representatives towards the end of the second rice crop in 2015, with the aim of assisting farmers with reducing production costs of growing paddy. Following the decision by Venezuela to stop importing rice and paddy from Guyana, millers were…
Opening Ceremony – Fourteenth Meeting of the Caribbean Fisheries Forum Hon. Noel Holder, Minister of Agriculture Ramada Georgetown Princess, Guyana 7- 8 April 2016 Mr. Chairperson, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, it is a pleasure for me to be asked to address you at this fourteenth meeting of the Caribbean Fisheries…
Guyana Rice Development Board and two Jamaican companies recently signed agreements that will see the export of rice from Guyana almost doubling in 2016. In 2015, export of rice from Guyana to Jamaica was 48,000 tonnes. The two agreements were signed between the Guyana Rice Development Board and the Jamaica…
Georgetown, March 17, 2016. The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has encountered a very unfortunate situation at the Rose Hall Estate this morning. About 06:00 hours, approximately 735 of our Cane Harvesters struck, they were demanding an explanation from the estate’s management as to the reason for them not being offered…
An official visit was made to Region 1 by Minister of Agriculture, Hon. Noel Holder where courtesy calls were made on Regional Chairman Mr. Brentnol Ashley and Regional Executive Officer, Mr. Leslie Wilburg. Discussions were held on taking agriculture forward in the region and both regional executives pledged their full…
Staff of the National Weather Watch Centre in Timehri will be participating in a regional tsunami early warning exercise tomorrow. Known as Caribe Wave 16, the exercise will test the effectiveness of early warning provisions involving those responsible for the management of emergencies in the region. The National Weather Watch Centre….
Over twenty-five persons residing on the Essequibo Coast, Region Two are now equipped to help promote community based mangrove management as a sustainable means of mangrove restoration and management. The National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) recently held a four-day Mangrove Ecology, Restoration and Management Workshop in Region Two. …
Agriculture Minister Hon. Noel Holder today while addressing the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean called for speedy action in addressing some of the issues of agriculture such as trade barriers, access to CARICOM markets and climate change interventions among others.
