Agro Processors want GMC decoupled from Ministry of Agriculture

Zulfikar Mustapha

While some small scale business owners in the agro processing sector still appear to hold the view that the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) has an important role to play in the helping their businesses to grow and particularly to secure more markets both within and outside the region, they insist that the state-run entity can only realize these objectives if it is removed from within the operating framework of the Ministry of Agriculture and allowed to function outside the framework of the conventional state sector.