NDIA begins desilting excercise in Georgetown
The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) has commenced critical desilting works along key drainage channels in Georgetown as part of the government’s ongoing...
NAREI, CAPA sign agreements to help farmers adopt new practices
The National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) and the Caribbean Agricultural Productivity Improvement Activity (CAPA) have signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs), aimed...
Hydromet Office predicts considerable rainfall from mid-November; miners and farmers urged to take precautionary...
The Hydrometeorological Service of the Ministry of Agriculture is forecasting wetter-than-usual rainfall conditions across all regions starting this month. This is considered Guyana’s secondary...
Min Mustapha urges diversification as 55,000 acres of new farmland to become available in...
Farmers in Region Five are being encouraged to diversify their production and take advantage of new opportunities being created through major government invests in...
Agriculture Ministry observes National Fisherfolk Day 2023
Today, scores of fisherfolk from across the country gathered at the Lusignan Community Center Ground to celebrate National Fisherfolk Day 2023.
This year, the event...
Mustapha meets with PSC to discuss possible collaboration to advance Guyana’s agriculture sector
Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha recently met with members of the Private Sector Commission’s (PSC) Agriculture Sub-Committee to discuss how the government and the local...
Hydromet office predicts May-July rains to be “above normal”
Please see the full release from The Hydrometeorological Service of the Ministry of Agriculture:
The Hydrometeorological Service of the Ministry of Agriculture has predicted that...
NDIA conducts desilting excercise in Georgetown
The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) is currently engaged in a series of ongoing works to desilt the Church Street Inlet channel and...
Gov’t distributed over $1.1B in support to fisherfolk in 2022
─ $109M in flood relief grants distributed to rice, livestock, cash crop farmers
The Government of Guyana has distributed more than $1.1 billion in grants...
GRDB probing seizure of $4.6M in rice shipped to Jamaica
Over the weekend, reports surfaced that 70 metric tonnes of White Cinderella rice, valued at approximately $4.6 million, had been confiscated by Jamaica’s Industries,...
