A plan to re-start growing crops such as onions in mountainous Region Eight is yet to take off.
“We have to ensure we have the logistics, we’re having difficulties with the planting material, we don’t have onions here to plant so we’re trying to source planting material as well as the training,” Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud told Stabroek News on Wednesday. He said that a lot of training has to be done and emphasized that the project is more at the trial stage.
Stabroek News had reported earlier this year that improved road links could see the resuscitation of south-western Region Eight as a large producer of “environmentally adaptable crops” such as
