The state of the country’s sugar industry is a microcosm of its weak agro processing sector, President of the National Agro Processors Association Ram Prashad has told Stabroek Business.
In an exclusive interview ahead of today’s national agro processing forum which opens this morning at the International Conference Centre, Liliendaal, Prashad said that like many of the other sub-sectors in the manufacturing sector the product produced by GuySuCo does not benefit from its optimum worth as a value-added product.
And according to Prashad, it was not to the credit of the sugar industry that after several years it had been unable to realise a meaningful diversification into the global multi-billion dollar confectionery industry. “Guyana should have been one of the major candy-producing
