Agro-processing seeks official attention ‘no less favourable’ than that afforded oil and gas

Women Agro processors at the recent UNCAPPED event at the Providence stadium

An informal follow up conversation with a gathering of local agro-processors who participated in the recent Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association –staged UncappeD event at the Providence Stadium has yielded the opinion that the likely single biggest government failure up until now in terms of support for the growth of the country’s agro processing sector has been its inability, up until now, to provide a facility that will enable the country’s agro-processors to undertake “end-to-end” manufacture and packaging of their produce to a point of them leaving the facility with “ready for market” products.