Guyana’s predominantly small-scale, agro-processing enterprises continue to face inevitable and serious material and technical deficiencies that retard their development and slow the pace of their emergence as a major economic sector.
Several of those hurdles confronting the sector were outlined in a presentation to last Friday’s forum agro-processing held at the International Conference Centre by Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Agricultural Health and Food Specialist, Dr Maxine Parris-Aaron.
In a presentation that generated energetic discourse outside the formal setting of the forum Dr Parris-Aaron focussed chiefly on the inability of the sector to secure the machinery and technical expertise necessary to sustain it on account of the mainly modest individual investments that have so far been made in
