Agriculture

Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha says there is no shortage of Guyana’s rice in St Vincent and the Grenadines. He was reacting to recent claims by Vincentian Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves that there is a shortage of that grain from Guyana due to transportation issues and reported fungus. While Dr Gonsalves had flagged the likelihood of St Vincent and the ...

Guyana is preparing to boost the production of Vannamei prawns for export, with financing from US$100 million that have been set aside by a Trinidad-headquartered bank to develop agriculture in the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha has said. He said the aim is to produce 3,960 tonnes of prawns annually for export to the United States and ...

Guyana intends to produce more than 60 percent of its onion needs, in addition to corn, soya, feed, black-eyed peas and red beans and so save the country more than US$150 million annually in foreign exchange, President Irfaan Ali said Wednesday. “We have experimented with onion production. We have proven, now, that we have the right mix of soil,” he ...

BRIDGETOWN – A recent study has found that despite modest improvements on last year, food insecurity in the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean remains persistently higher than pre-pandemic levels, driven by the cost-of-living crisis, global economic volatility and the lingering impacts of the pandemic. The Caribbean Food Security and Livelihoods Survey, carried out jointly by the United Nations World Food Programme ...

The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) has crafted a strategy to attract investment in three key areas at the Caribbean Investment Forum (CIF) to be held in Guyana later this year, a top official said Wednesday. Caribbean Export’s Executive Director, Deodat Maharaj said the event slated for July 10-12, 2024 at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre, Liliendaal, Greater Georgetown ...

Two weeks after the opposition coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance F0r Change (APNU+AFC) returned from an outreach to the Rupununi and raised concerns about a severe water shortage, President Irfaan Ali on Friday announced that government was rushing large quantities of cassava to the drought-stricken region. “We brought in 500,000 pounds of cassava . It went to Deep ...

The Guyana government is constructing a GY$600 million abattoir at Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice, and that facility is expected to be the country’s main slaughtering area, authorities said. “When completed, the facility will become the main slaughtering area for cattle in the country as Region Five is poised to become the hub for the ‘cattle industry’,” government said. The state-of-the ...

President Irfaan Ali on Monday appealed to people in the Caribbean and Latin America to return to the days of taking home-cooked food to work and school and reduce their dependence on fast foods. “How do we ensure that the next generation just don’t eat but eat food with greater nutritional value? How do we go back to the bowl ...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Wednesday officially launched the Caribbean Agricultural Productivity Improvement Activity (CAPA), a programme that aims at increasing food security efforts, while strengthening the livelihoods of farmers locally. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was also signed by UG’s Vice Chancellor, and Improving Economies for Stronger Communities (IESC) CAPA’s Programme Director, Sandford Edwards, to ...

President Irfaan Ali on Friday announced that Guyana would be part of a ferry service that would link this South American country with sister Caribbean Community (CARICOM) nations Trinidad and Tobago, and Barbados. He announced the formation of the company at the signing ceremony for a US$35 million four-lane bridge between Mackenzie and Linden. “Yesterday, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and ...