Against the backdrop of uncertainties associated chiefly with the prospects for the future of locally manufactured food products, the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) will stage its Fourth Annual Agro Processors Street Fair at the Stabroek Market Square today.
The shift in the location for the one-day event from the Main Street Avenue to the customarily far busier Stabroek area is seen as an attempt to draw increased public attention to what the local agro-processing sector has to offer at a time when it faces challenges at two levels, first, from the competition provided by the increasing volumes of imported agro processed sauces, spices and condiments finding their way onto local supermarket shelves and secondly on account of the many and varied barriers which local agro processors face in seeking to secure access for their goods to markets abroad.
