For much of the past week, scores of Guyanese agro-processors have been busying themselves seeking out the most cost-effective ways of travelling to Barbados to attend the sister CARICOM country’s February 24-26 Agro Fest, the closest they would have gotten in recent years to an opportunity to display their agro produce on a stage outside of Guyana. Back in October last year the government had turned down a request from the Guyanese/American Chamber of Commerce for a state subsidy to allow for Guyanese participation in last October’s Florida Trade Expo. That decision had left a great many local Agro Processors brooding.
