We should not be building a white sugar plant
Letter to Editor: By Tony Vieira
Anthony “Tony” Vieira
Why is our sugar industry a huge problem in Guyana? Well, labe with countries which have mechanised.
Our drainage is poor, because we are below sea level, which meanour is too expensive. Labour is also short. We receive too much rainfall to mechanise effectively and have become uncompetitivs that it only drains about 12 hours per day according to the low tides, and to make matters even worse our soils are too clayey to drain freely, and our fields are laid out as cambered beds which are impossible to mechanise without conversion.
Just one inch of rain during the cropping season, can stop all mechanised harvesting operations for as much as two to three days and is the reason why all attempts to mechanise since the 70’s have failed. Continue reading →
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Nov 26, 2019 – Guyana: Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs, Press Release
The Farmers Group along with the Hand-in-Hand Women’s Group in Kwebanna Village, Moruca sub-region, Barima/Waini, Region One, successfully concluded a one-week training exercise in preparation for the hosting of the first-ever Cassava Festival scheduled for December 14.
The session which was conducted by Hinterland Employment Youth Service (HEYS) Catering Facilitator, Margaret Cornette, saw fifty women participating in the five-day exercise.
The training targeted members of the two groups to creatively experiment with the Cassava Flour before the commissioning of the much-anticipated Cassava Flour Processing Facility. Continue reading →
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November 8, 2019 – Kaieteur News
One holder of a degree in computer science, and another who is completing his degree in finance and accounting, two cousins, have teamed up along with the son of another to establish a major local plantain chip packaging business.
Garth Nelson, Deicrick Forde and David Forde surrounded by Regional Chairman, Renis Morian, Vice Chairman Elroy Adolph and students pose with samples of the product at the launch.
The business, Ventriz Flavoured Plantain Chips offers three flavours to the general public. Continue reading →
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By Stabroek News – Editorial – October 31, 2019 
Last Friday, when she hosted a symposium for Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) farmers, Minister within the Ministry of Agriculture Valerie Adams-Yearwood was quoted as telling them that the forecast showed “a bright future… for agriculture in the Rupununi, if economic development is pursued in a way that conserves the region’s cultural and natural heritage…”, this is according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).
Economic development is crucial, no doubt about that, but there are several other factors that could very well shift the touted forecast and one of them, the main one, is climate change, which was referred to in the DPI press release. Continue reading →
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Lessons from Nature: Adapting to Change – by Rosaliene Bacchus
by the Rosaliene Bacchus Blog
Section of my succulent garden
The succulent plants in my garden brighten my life. During humanity’s mad dash towards the abyss, their quiet dynamic presence calm my troubled mind. Under California’s scorching sunshine that set dry brush ablaze, my succulent plants have found a way to survive the extreme heat. Some change color; others become more compact in form.
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