Even as hinterland communities face challenges in the quest to transform their agricultural initiatives into profitable business ventures, the Ministry of Agriculture has stated that the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) in collaboration with the Canada-backed Promotion of Regional Opportunities for Produce through Enterprises and Linkages and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture has completed a Cost-of-Production Workshop at St Ignatius Village that targeted farmers and agro-processors in Region Nine.
The ministry said the exercise was aimed at better equipping farmers and agro-processors with knowledge that would enable them to identify and compute input costs for their farming or agro-processing initiatives and was intended as a follow-up to a fact-finding mission undertaken in November by the GMC after flawed management decisions contributed to underperformance in some hinterland agricultural projects.
