Growing interest in hydroponic farming

Local and international specialists examining a Shadehouse at Friendship on the East Bank Demerara

It may be early days yet for Guyana’s small but animated community of hydroponic farmers currently benefiting from a Shadehouse Vegetable Production and Marketing Project, but the potential for the further popularization of the project and perhaps the eventual securing of overseas markets has already begun to energize participants.

On Tuesday more than 40 conventional farmers who appear to have become converts of the shadehouse technology gathered in the Savannah Suite of the Pegasus Hotel for what the organizers described