Deficiencies in “essential physical infrastructure” necessary to enable the growth of the country’s agro-processing sector including facilities for efficient manufacturing and packaging of agro-produce to render products market-ready have been identified as being among the main hindrances to the acceleration of the sector, according to responses to a limited survey undertaken by the Stabroek Business over the past three weeks.
Twenty-seven out of the thirty-two agro-processors located in various communities of coastal Guyana told this newspaper recently that they believed that their businesses would be far more successful if – given their limited resources – ‘ready-made’ factory facilities financed by the state, the use of which they are prepared to pay for, would cause them to invest more heavily in both increasing the volumes of product they manufacture as well as in the improvement of product quality and presentation.
