With the local agro processing sector being pressed to ‘shift gears’ in order to maximize growing external market opportunities, a collaborative effort involving the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), the Small Business Bureau (SBB) and the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS), on Wednesday, saw representatives of ten (10) agro processing establishments participate in a competence-enhancing exercise designed to help further raise all-round standards in the sector.
The exercise was specifically designed to raise participants’ awareness of key food safety requisites necessary to enhance consumer acceptance of their products in increasingly competitive local, regional and international markets.
