Govt. gearing to harvest 1,200 tonnes of soya beans soon
The Guyana Government is making significant strides in its goal to be self-sufficient with in the cultivation of corn and soya bean in the...
Urgent measures needed to control skyrocketing food prices-Pres. Ali tells World Leaders
President, Dr Irfaan Ali has called on governments across the region to collaborate and devise appropriate, urgent measures to shield the most vulnerable from...
Guyana, CARICOM Fund ink US$18M deal to help 4,300 farmers
The Government of Guyana and the CARICOM (Caribbean Community) Development Fund (CDF) recently signed a US$18 million financing agreement, to kickstart the Agricultural and...
GAWU wants pay increase for sugar workers to be retroactive to January 2019
The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) wants the agreed upon pay increases for sugar workers to be retroactive to January 1, 2019...
Agri. Minister highlights areas for partnership in meeting with Brazilian investors
On Tuesday, Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha, met with a team of Brazilian investors who are currently in Guyana as part of a visit facilitated...
CAD$20M project launched to strengthen role of youths, men, and women in Agriculture
By Staff Writer
Today, the World University Service of Canada (WUSC) hosted a virtual exercise to launch its five-year Sustainable Agriculture in the Caribbean (SAC)...
Guyanese youths bring the heat with new line of pepper jellies
The Agriculture and Innovation Entrepreneurship Programme (AIEP), an initiative launched in 2022 by President Dr. Irfaan Ali to empower young entrepreneurs, launched the country’s...
225,000 acres of rice to be cultivated countrywide, 100, 000 set for Region Five...
Guyana’s agriculture sector is rapidly developing at a pace with some 225,000 acres of rice expected to be cultivated countrywide during the first crop...
Gov’t to bring on stream 1,000 acres of land to expand red beans, black...
To provide farmers with an additional income stream, President Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali has said the government will be pumping resources to operationalise 1,000...
Guyana’s leadership in forest management and climate change highlighted at opening of $60M mangrove...
The opening of the first-of-its-kind Mangrove Centre at the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) marks a significant milestone in Guyana’s commitment to...
