Dear Editor,
As most of the world and our Caricom partners begin to run out of domestic food supplies and imported substitutes increase in price, all eyes will be on Guyana to pick up the slack. It would seem that both Trinidad and Barbados are already eying our vast open spaces as potential food producing lands capable of feeding not just Guyana but all of Caricom well into the 21st century. Hopefully the upcoming Regional Agri-business Forum will address Guyana’s vast potential for feeding the Caribbean and its comparative advantage in economic terms.
Guyana must plan earnestly to cash in on what is now being termed “global food insecurity.” To do so successfully, critical infrastructure will have to be put in place to provide easy access to these wide open land areas able to transport man, material and machines.
