A joint public/private sector initiative to realize the setting up of a multi-purpose agro-processing plant in Guyana will be high on the agenda of the second Inter Ministerial Roundtable discourses between government and the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA), Stabroek Business has been informed.
Articulating the planned outlining of the proposal to the government’s representatives at the roundtable, including Finance Minister Winston Jordan, Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman, Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson and Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin, GMSA Vice President Ramsey Ali told this newspaper that the GMSA will be seeking a government buy-in for the creation of a plant being set up “within two to three years.” Ali told Stabroek Business that the GMSA was thinking of “the setting up of a multi-functional entity that can be expanded modularly. There really is no reason why this country should not have a working agro-processing facility to enable us to start selling packaged agricultural produce in the markets.” He said that other countries in the hemisphere have been using similar facilities and have been able to put their manufactured goods on the United States market.
