Even as the New Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) continues to lend its support to local producers in an effort to increase the consumption of locally produced foods during the holiday season, efforts to accelerate relationships between manufacturers of agro processed goods and local supermarkets and other outlets will be stepped up in the new year.
New GMC General Manager Nizam Hassan told Stabroek Business in an interview on Wednesday that the company is seeking to encourage the use of traditional foods that are plentiful on the local market during the Christmas season in order to support the efforts of farmers to bring produce to the market. “Citrus is one of the better examples that one can think about. We expect the current plentiful supply to last into the new year and we are focusing on encouraging consumption during the holiday period.”
Hassan said that the work of the New GMC seeks
