The “Rice Brekkies” cereal, launched at last week’s GuyExpo by President Donald Ramotar, is a pilot project developed by the Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology (IAST) and the factory still has to be set up and the product cleared by the regulatory authorities.
The project is being commercialised due to the effort of the Minister of Commerce Irfaan Ali, who saw the potential of the product and its relevance in the Guyana context, during a visit by the Minister and the President Ramotar to IAST earlier this year.
The cereal, which is pending approval from the government’s Food and Drug Department, is currently manufactured at the IAST’s facilities at Turkeyen, at a pilot scale which is approximately 600 250g boxes per week.
Through the collaboration of the Ministry and the IAST, funding for the construction of a manufacturing
