The Ministry of Agriculture has designed a project to engage students enrolled at the Guyana School of Agriculture (GSA) in income-generating activities during the duration of their programme, in keeping with its goal of making them practising agriculturists by the time they graduate.
The ministry is making available 100 one-acre plots in Mon Repos for the students, who are expected to team-up and use their assigned plots in a money-making enterprise.
The project aims to help them to marry the practice of agriculture with entrepreneurial skills to make a livelihood, Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy said in his feature address at a youth forum organised by the Caribbean Farmers Network during the just-concluded Caribbean Week of Agriculture activities
