Newly appointed Minister of Agriculture, Hon. Zulfikar Mustapha has indicated that he is ready to apply his ‘hands-on’ approach to resuscitate this very vital sector. While meeting with heads of agencies and other technical staff at the Ministry on Thursday, Minister Mustapha said that he is ready to work with…
See below the Performance Report for the Ministry of Agriculture 2015-2020 https://www.scribd.com/document/469028342/Ministry-of-Agriculture-s-Performance-Report-2015-2020
The ministers and secretaries of Agriculture of 14 Caribbean countries learned about funding opportunities they will be able to access to implement recovery actions in the agriculture and rural sectors to address the impact of Covid-19. During a videoconference, representatives of financial institutions, development organizations and donors informed the ministers…
Fellow Guyanese, today we join people around the world to commemorate the 2nd World Food Safety Day under the theme “Food safety, everybody’s business”. Food safety, a matter of growing importance, encompasses all the practices carried out during production, handling, distribution, preparation and storage of food in order to guarantee…
; as part of MoA’s R.E.A.P As the global COVID19 Coronavirus pandemic continues to affect many Guyanese, the Rural Affairs Secretariat of the Ministry of Agriculture recently launched its COVID19 Relief Kitchen Garden Initiative. This initiative, which aims to provide a nutritional balance to families and a deterrence from toxic…
The Ministry of Agriculture’s will be celebrating Guyana’s 50th Republic Anniversary with a return to a focus on each household being able to contribute to its food needs, through our Kitchen Garden Competition, launched on Friday November 29th, 2019 by Minister within the Ministry of Agriculture Valerie Yearwood. This competition,…
Maya Angelou said “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” This is the goal of capacity building initiatives undertaken through our various programmes and the anticipated outcome of this seminar: to improve the knowledge of participants on the critical issues that…
The Minister of Agriculture, Guyana, attended the Conference of Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas, the 20th Regular Meeting of the Inter-American Board of Agriculture (IABA), which was held at the Head Quarters of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) from October 29 to November 1, 2019 in…
