Some of the country’s major and modest agro-processors will set out their stalls at the `Uncapped’ event today at the National Exhibition Centre, Sophia, hoping for a fruitful interface with major supermarkets and other outlets that will significantly grow the home market for local agro produce. The event will run until Sunday.
Up until now much of the focus in the discourse on the marketing of the goods produced by the local agro processing sector has been on finding ways of increasing regional and extra-regional demand. In a final pre-event briefing for the Stabroek Business on Wednesday evening both Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) President Shyam Nokta and Vice President Ramsay Ali were emphasizing that the weekend’s Agro Processors Exhibition Market and Food Festival was specifically focused on seeking to place more local agro-processed goods on the shelves of local outlets.
