Strategic Plan envisages foreign earnings from aquaculture matching sugar by 2015

A local aquaculture farmA strategic plan for the expansion of the local aquaculture industry prepared by the National Aquaculture Association of Guyana (NAAG) and which has secured the backing of both the public and private sectors is seeking to guide the industry towards becoming Guyana’s leading economic sector by the year 2015.

The plan which has secured the support of international donor agencies, technical groups, local financiers and farmers seeks to have earnings from aquaculture match the returns from sugar by 2015.