East Bank Demerara residents to benefit from new pump station at Craig

To mitigate flooding in many farming areas while increasing food productivity, residents along the East Bank corridor will soon benefit from the construction of...

Specialists to be hired to spearhead initiatives on new crops – Mustapha

  By Staff Writer Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha recently disclosed that financial provisions have been made in budget 2022 for specialists to be hired to advance...

De-risking regional agricultural sector critical to moving the sector forward – Min. Mustapha

Given the increasing impacts of climate change on the regional agricultural systems sector, Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha recently articulated that financial instruments for de-risking...

NAREI records another successful batch of onions

Farmer Rawle Medford was all smiles yesterday after successfully harvesting – for a second time – a batch of onions from his Phillipi Village,...

ActionINVEST, GMSA collaborate to empower agro-processing members through bankability fund for women

ActionINVEST Caribbean Inc. (ACI) and the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) have joined forces to empower women entrepreneurs in the agro-processing sector through...

LETTER: New research reveals APNU+AFC ultimately at fault for crisis in sugar industry

Dear Editor, For more than a decade, many letter writers and the political opposition have blamed the PPP/C Government for the failure of the Skeldon...

Closing Guysuco would cause unthinkable social problems and even invite the Dutch Disease

Dear Editor, The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO)and its 8000+ got another round of financial support from the government recently, some $4 Billion to support the...

Govt. commissions $28.3M agro-processing facility at Charity

The Ministry of Agriculture on Friday commissioned a $28.3 million agro-processing facility in Charity, located on the Essequibo Coast in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam). The...

Pres. Ali calls for more investments in agri-tech, eco-tourism, other sectors during CELAC Summit

At the VIII Summit of Heads of Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), President Irfaan Ali urged investors to...

Agri. Ministry condemns “false and reckless” claims about Crabwood Creek Solar Dryer, Agro-processing facility

See statement from the Ministry of Agriculture:  The Ministry of Agriculture firmly condemns the blatantly false and reckless claims circulated in a recent social media...

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