CARDI approves $7.5m for strategy to manage coconut pests, diseases

The Caribbean Agriculture Research and Development Institute (CARDI) recently approved a proposal for a $7.5m Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Strategy aimed at increasing productivity in Guyana’s coconut industry.

The project is scheduled to commence in July, 2017 and will see improved practices and strategic measures being introduced to tackle pests and diseases plaguing the sector, a release from the Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday.

Chief Executive Officer of NAREI, Dr. Oudho Homenauth said that