Govt. making headway with efforts to lift ban on Catfish exports to lucrative US...

  By Staff writer Since assuming office, the PPP/C Government has been working aggressively alongside officials in the United States to lift the ban placed on...

NAREI helps Mainstay/Whyaka residents with technology to expand production of cucumbers, tomatoes, other crops

Following a series of technical training from the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI), residents of Mainstay/Whyaka, Region Two are able to aggressively...

Execute works on time, we are not giving extensions- Agri Minister tells contractors 

Agencies falling under the Ministry of Agriculture today signed several contracts for projects catered for within the ministry's 2022 work programme. Contracts totalling $605 million...

Agri. Minister vows to address freshwater crisis affecting Wakenaam, Leguan farmers

Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha recently held meetings at Wakenaam and Leguan to hear of the issues faced by farmers. While at Wakenaam, farmers told...

Prison officers, inmates receive plant nursery management training

Under the ‘Grow More’ initiative, a total of six officers and two inmates from the Lusignan and Timehri Prisons have completed training at the...

Guyana’s $7B seabob industry propped up by 3 large firms, 305 Chinese fishers, 107...

Pritipaul Singh Investments, Noble House Seafoods (NHS), and Gopie Investments Inc. (GII) are the three large kings of Guyana’s $7B seabob industry. But following closely in the...

Victoria farmers to benefit from emergency drainage works after years of neglect

By Staff writer Farmers from Victoria Village, a farming community located on the East Coast of Demerara, will soon benefit from a number of much-needed...

Residents urged to take precautions as flooding ensues in Werk-en-Rust, surrounding areas

Residents of Werk-en-Rust, Charlestown and other areas surrounding the Princess Street Koker are advised to take the necessary precautions as the rising tide has...

Guyana among several nations to benefit from US$230M fund to transform agri-systems

Guyana along with scores of other states vulnerable to climate change impacts is set to benefit from a multimillion-dollar fund that will help to...

CARICOM’s plan to reduce US$6 billion food import bill by 2025, pushed back to...

The ambitious plan of 15 member states within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to slash their US$6 billion food import bill by 25% reduction by...

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