Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha, on Tuesday, led a team to visit the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) in Mon Repos, where several tunnel houses for poultry production are currently under construction.
The initiative was announced by President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali during a meeting with a group of young people at La Jalousie, Essequibo Islands–West Demerara, last year, and is poised to revolutionise poultry farming through the introduction of climate-smart tunnel houses.
These innovative structures are designed to boost production and significantly reduce mortality rates.
While speaking with some of the beneficiaries at Mon Repos, Minister Mustapha said that all of the equipment procured to set up the tunnel houses was now in Guyana and that, by the end of the first quarter of 2026, all eight tunnel houses should become operational.
As part of the initiative, the Ministry of Agriculture has allocated five acres of land in the region to establish a state-of-the-art poultry farm. This high-tech agricultural tunnel house will form the foundation for a $50 million poultry production facility, capable of producing 45,000 chickens per batch.
The project will be co-funded by the youths, who will collectively contribute $10 million, with an additional $40 million in financing provided by the banking sector at preferential interest rates as low as 4.5%.
This initiative, which targets youths from several regions, forms part of a broader government effort to encourage youth participation in agribusiness and to modernize the country’s agricultural practices. (Source: Ministry of Agriculture)
