With an official report on the takeaways for the Guyanese contingent at the February 24-28 Agro Fest in Barbados still to be made public, a reliable evaluation of the role that the event would have played in advancing the external marketability for local agro produce would be impossible to undertake.
What took almost fifty (50) local Agro Processors to the three-day event was a keenness to determine whether the modest sense of market breakthrough that had been felt by those who attended the 2022 event had, over the past year, been transformed into a growth in market demand. As of now, we are still unable to make that determination. Here, one assumes, that a report on an evaluation of the portents and outcomes of Guyana’s 2023 Agro Fest experience and the quicker that these are forthcoming, the better. There are few if any optional yardsticks that can be used to measure those outcomes.
