Project targets local, export markets with new crop varieties

Oumdeo Ramdeo

Two local companies operating in tandem out of modest premises in Waterloo Street have set themselves the twin tasks of significantly broadening the variety of fruits and vegetables cultivated locally and expanding markets in the Caribbean and further afield.

Oumdeo Ramdeo, an accountant by profession is a major investor in the companies, Agroin and Pascargo. Ramdeo and Alvin Parag, a University of Guyana-trained agricultural scientist, are the men behind the project which they say can cater to a broader range