– coconuts, rice, cassareep in demand
Guyana’s lack of export readiness continues to impede serious growth in the volumes of the country’s food exports to Canada at a time when the demand for local products among Guyanese and West Indians in that country is on the increase, Consultant to the local Trade and Facilitation Office (TFO) Bertrand Walle told Stabroek Business earlier this week.
From an acute lack of freight capacity and inefficiencies in the maritime industry to difficulties associated with local food exports complying with Canada’s demanding food safety standards, Guyana “still has a long way to go,” Walle said on Monday in the presence of representatives of three of the five companies spending a week here, seeking to strengthen existing links or forge new ones with local farmers and agro-processors.
The high point of the visit was expected to be face-to-face meetings with local producers and rice, coconuts, cassareep and pepper were
