Africa and the Americas seal partnership to restore soils

The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) recently launched the biregional “Living Soils”...

Agri programme, roads, electricity upgrades for Matthew’s Ridge

Residents of Matthew’s Ridge, Region One (Barima-Waini) can expect major developments in their community with the upgrading of 3.8 kilometres of roads and the...

Govt. invites bids for construction of milk parlours in Regions 4, 5 & 6

The government through the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) has opened invitations for bids for the construction of milk parlours in Regions Four, Five...

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...

Gaico Construction signs contract to dredge mouth of the Pomeroon River

  The Agriculture Ministry today facilitated the signing of several multimillion dollar contracts. During the exercise that took place in the Ministry’s Boardroom, the National Drainage...

Govt. gets millers to agree to pay rice farmers $4000 minimum per bag 

Rice farmers countrywide can finally breathe a sigh of relief as government has been able to secure an agreement from millers to pay nothing...

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...

Sweeping transformation on the cards for GuySuCo – Presi. Ali

After five years of what President Mohamed Irfaan Ali described as a struggle to rescue the sugar industry from the crippled state it was...

Govt. tables bill to return $1.7B to mining community

The Fiscal Enactment Amendment Bill No. 2 of 2022 was today presented to the National Assembly by Senior Minister in the Office of the...

Agri. Ministry issues statement debunking “erroneous and misleading” Stabroek News Editorial

See full statement below from the Ministry of Agriculture: The Ministry of Agriculture’s National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) wishes to debunk erroneous and misleading...

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