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Moments after he was sworn in as the new Minister of Agriculture at State House, yesterday, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has promised to place greater focus on the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo).For years, the sugar industry has been experiencing turmoil even with management trying to implement its turn around plan.“GuySuCo is critical and we need to fix it. So,cheap nfl jerseys online, one of the areas that I will be focusing a lot on is working with GuySuCo’s management,jerseys nfl wholesale, board and management,cheap jerseys nfl wholesale, working with the workers themselves and with the union.”An aerial view of the Skeldon Sugar factory, BerbiceMinister Ramsammy said that the agriculture sector has come a far way during the last few years; and in his term,wholesale jerseys china, emphasis will be placed on initiatives to ensure that Guyana remains the bread basket of the Caribbean.Kaieteur News was also told that other focal points of this Ministry will be the diversification of crops and food production in Guyana.“We have done well with rice, we have done well with sugar, we have some other crops and so we have to diversify that. We also have to expand the area of production, from mainly the Coast to introducing more agriculture in the Interior of Guyana,” said Minister Ramsammy.This includes taking ginger,wholeslae cheap nfl jerseys china, citrus, rice and soil into interior locations. At present,cheap nfl jerseys, Region Nine is already benefitting from rice.“Also we have to look at not just the introduction of new crops but at different kinds of existing crops, the different species,wholesale jerseys, more pest resistant,cheap nfl jerseys china, more crops that are resistant to the environmental vagaries that we have.“People in the communities face major problems such as drainage and irrigation and so on but these are just some of the areas that we will look at,” the Minister further stated.He added that research will play an important part of this exercise and thus the research capacity of the ministry will be strengthened. |
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