Agriculture

Demerara Dairies Inc (DDI), a subsidiary of Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL), is eyeing a double-digit share of the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) cow’s milk market when the company begins production at a highly technologically driven farm at the more than 200 acre Moblissa facility, officials said Sunday. According to DDL’s Deputy Chief Executive Officer and DDI’s Finance Director, Vasudeo Singh, the ...

India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on Wednesday offered the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to fight transnational crime, supply ferry vessels and convert the troublesome sargassum seaweed into fertiliser. Addressing the opening of the 2nd India-CARICOM summit in Georgetown, Mr Modi proposed that India partner with the region in the implementation of its recently-launched maritime security strategy to fight drug trafficking, ...

The Abary sluice door on Friday virtually collapsed under pressure from spring tide, threatening to flood low-lying areas along the Belamy drain from Abary to Airyhall, West Coast Berbice, the Ministry of Agriculture said. The Ministry, however, added that swift action from the Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary-Agricultural Development Authority (MMA-ADA) saw immediate mobilization of equipment to block major channels in Burma ...

President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday sought to justify his People’s Progressive Party Civic’s (PPPC) administration to keep the limping state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) operational in its present form, although the US$1.31 per pound cost of production exceeds the selling price of US$0.35 cents per pound. “We cannot look at sugar only from that measurement that you used because there ...

Guyana will soon begin the production of livestock vaccines for local and regional supply, Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha announced at an international conference in Uruguay. He said that as a solution to create a more sustainable pathway for animal healthcare, Guyana would commence the production of vaccines for all livestock through a public-private partnership (PPP). No details were provided ...

The Ministry of Agriculture said the National Agriculture Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) is now better equipped with modernised equipment to conduct time-sensitive soil testing. On Monday, Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha commissioned the soil laboratory which is located at NAREI’s Mon Repos office. The project was funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to the tune of over $57 million. ...

In a move towards addressing global hunger, President Mohamed Irfaan Ali released his latest book “Achieving Global Food Security: The Caribbean Experience and Beyond” at the Blavatnik School of Governments at the University of Oxford in England on Saturday, government’s Department of Public Information said. The book provides a holistic overview of the causes and challenges surrounding food security in ...

Guyana on Friday assured the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) market that there is sufficient rice, and that shipments of the grain were on their way to Grenada, effectively pushing back plans by that island to ask the regional trade ministerial council for permission to buy rice from outside the region, officials said. “I would ask the Ministry of Trade to put ...

Former Finance Minister Winston Jordan is insisting that government’s assistance to the agriculture sector is skewed in favour of People’s Progressive Party (PPP) supporters rather than across the board, but a senior official of the governing party accused him of race-baiting and said the evidence proves otherwise. “This $1 billion subsidy that was given last year in fertiliser subsidy was ...

Sugar production slumped by 60.4% during the first half of 2024 with production of 6,739 tonnes of the sweetener reported by the state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO), according to the Finance Ministry’s report on the country’s economic performance from January to June. “This performance is attributed to the carried over impacts of drier-than-usual weather conditions last year into the second ...