Roughly half of the 12.5M hectares of state forests has been allocated, while the forests types and productive capacity of the remainder needs to be verified, according to Forestry Commissioner James Singh.
Singh, Commissioner of the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC), made the disclosure on Wednesday while responding to Chairman of the Parliamentary Sectoral Committee on Natural Resources Odinga Lumumba, who questioned him on a statement that was made by Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman during his budget presentation in January.
Trotman had stated that the present APNU+AFC administration met an
