The ‘Grow More’ campaign and the farmers data base initiative have been moving along fairly well, GMC General Manager Nizam Hassan said at a press conference Thursday.
The two initiatives were launched by the New Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture in light of rising food prices.
Hassan said that some 450 villages across several regions have been covered so far with an estimated 2,000 farmers already included in the database. The farmers data base is a compilation started several months ago and includes names of farmers, their location and what crop and how much of that crop they cultivate.
This is being done so that the authorities have a sound idea of who produces what, where the production is done and the amount that is garnered. The GMC will be able also to respond to investors and buyers regarding queries about what is produced where.
