Agri Ministry commits to upping other crops exports 25% by 2020

Stakeholders at the meeting (GINA photo)

Addressing the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC)’s export facilitation workshop held at the Arthur Chung Convention Centre yesterday, Minister of Agriculture Noel Holder told attendees that the GMC is committed to increasing non-rice/sugar exports by 25 percent by 2020.

Boosting the export of other crops had been a major preoccupation of the previous PPP/C government but with limited results.

Holder in his remarks released by the Agriculture Ministry said that agricultural development has to