The Grow More Food campaign has had a positive impact and rice exports brought in US$118M last year, Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud says.
He added that last year too, there were increases in exports. “The non-traditional crops sector recorded increased exports and we introduced several new crops to overseas markets”, he stated at a press conference at the Ministry of Agriculture boardroom yesterday. He said that non-traditional exports went up close to US$7M and declared that the ability not only to supply traditional markets but new markets as well shows the impact of the Grow More Food campaign. He asserted that the campaign met objectives that had been set.
The minister declined to provide figures stating that this would be contained in the National Budget, which is expected to be presented shortly.
Persaud stated that there was general expansion in all the sub-sectors with the exception of sugar. He pointed out that last year, the “highest ever” figure earned for exports of rice was recorded with the staple garnering some US$118M. However, he noted that the sugar industry faces some “rough” years ahead and will go through a difficult financial situation which will last up to 2015 and then at this point the returns from the investments made in the Skeldon factory, the Enmore packaging facility and other investments will start to be seen.
Meantime, the Agriculture Minister further stated that improved breeds of cattle, sheep and swine acquired during 2007 were multiplied and distributed while additional small ruminant stocks for breeding and distribution were acquired. He noted that for the first time, embryo transfer to introduce a new breed of sheep in Guyana was successfully carried out.
He declared that despite several challenges faced throughout 2008, which placed a tremendous strain on the agriculture sector, the Ministry continued to execute its policies, programmes and projects geared towards modernizing and transforming agriculture and food production in Guyana.
… the Agri boss ,, is giving us details ,,of the monies rec’d from sales of produce under his “management” could he tell us ,,,,, ME ! how much of that was spent on “band-aid” as supervised by him !
his calculation is like that of a “gambler” ! win a dollar today which is the cry of the loser ,, and for the rest of the week lose 10 bucks ,, all the while feelin good bcos he won a dollar !…………
Thanks to those hard working,rice farmers,who toiled daily to make the rice farming a success.
Thanks to those hard working,rice farmers,who toiled daily to make the rice business a success.
Rice exports notched up US$118M
oh oh this is very bad news for some bloggers here….
lets see if we get 100 dozen hits here on good news…
come on blog heads sho your true colors now………
DURING THE 1980s it was GY$118.00
Come on now, all the news, can’t be bad. And this is, very good news. We just need more, like this.
nothing but hot air from the minister. comparison without figures. what’s the present state of the grow more campaign and the bull nose pepper project?
tiger hey you..dont go there with “you people” thats not called for..ok?we have a good thing here against each other so dont you blow it….and yes tiger…guyana is one gazillion times improved since 92…when last yuh bin home?
go and see fuh yuhself…or yuh want me take yuh?
i bet you cant even afford more to your usual 15 gy dollars to travle…thats what you are calling progress…yes..travel allownace $15.00 Guyana dollars….
They are too busy to bother with good news.
Nothing positive gets their attention, only the minutest of sad or negative news are blogged on.
I was thinking the same thing this morning as i read the news
Good positives does not fit their quest to provoke and propogate riots and violence in the streets to remove a democratically elected government.After three decades of plundering and bringing Guyana to its knees,these PNC diehards are not happy at progress that the PPP government has done to miraculously rescue our once impoverished, but vastly improving land.Keep up the good work Evileyes.
keep up the good work evileyes????, what good work are you talking about tsar?? now to compare situations in guyana now and then, which you people seem to ponder on all the time,food prices has risen more than 500%,corruption and drug smuggleing has never been this bad,crime rate has sky rocketed like never before,attempts to silence some people who dare to let guyanese know the truth, (like cn sharma, benschop)floods after floods which are presently preventing the people from making a living and doing nothing about it (watch cnsharma’s programm visit to the affected area’s)the revoking of us visa’s to members of this admin including the cop,the flight of guyana’s human resorces to greener pastures(statistics has shown the increase numbers)and much much more i chose not to mention, because my blogg might be sensored.
ok so thev’ve manage to make a lot of profits from the rice exported. this is good for guyana,now i wonder which area would benifit from these profits, would some of it be directed to the ailing sugar industry?,or to beef up the gpf with much needed equiptment and the training of new requits?, or would it go the pockets of the govt??
tiger
you wont benefit period…here or in guyana…
Where are the usual suspects?the anti-Govt forces lem me guess, de looking fo transformers.
Encouraging guys.Let’s strive to double this value in three years.The farmers,millers and exporters are ready,government give them the support!!
personal attacks get no where for that in itself is just as negative as the bloggers who are accused of dwelling on negative news.
dove you must tell that to the anti govt bloggers….everything according to them about guyana and its government are most negative….look at how they run away from good new all the time…do your own survey and see what im saying….