Shade house farming offers poverty reduction, business opportunities

Shade house instructor Colwayne Morris

Colwayne Morris believes he may be living through a significant period in the evolution of agricultural practices in Guyana and while he concedes that the shade house method is by no means new, he feels a point has been reached where its impact could significantly alter the face of local farming.

With science currently preoccupied with an urgent search for farming methods that are able to respond to the emergency of what is believed to be an imminent global food shortage, Morris, a Field Extension Officer with a local Inter-American Development Bank-supported