Agri minister seeking technical help from India for sugar

From left are Hutton Griffith, Manager of the Blairmont Estate; Indian High Commissioner, Dr. K. J. Srinivasa and Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha touring the Blairmont factory. 

Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha on Saturday stated that as his ministry moves ahead with the reopening of the sugar estates it is working to secure the help of “technical personnel” from India to advise and assist on the best way forward for the factories and cultivations. 

“I am hoping that we can have help from India in terms of technical personnel. I have already written to the High Commissioner of India and they are looking at technical expertise to come and help us at the factory level and also I will be requesting them to have technical experts coming here to help us in our cultivation”, he stated.