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Moments after he was sworn in as the new Minister of Agriculture at State House,Dave Robinson Packers Jersey, yesterday, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has promised to place greater focus on the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo).For years,Jay Novacek Cowboys Jersey, 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,Jack Lambert Steelers Jersey, one of the areas that I will be focusing a lot on is working with GuySuCo’s management, board and management,Doug Williams Redskins Jersey, working with the workers themselves and with the union.”An aerial view of the Skeldon Sugar factory,Mike Quick Eagles Jersey, BerbiceMinister Ramsammy said that the agriculture sector has come a far way during the last few years; and in his term, 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,Marcus Allen Raiders Jersey, 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,Kurt Warner Cardinals Jersey,” said Minister Ramsammy.This includes taking ginger, citrus, rice and soil into interior locations. At present,Mike Singletary Bears Jersey, 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,Ronnie Lott Raiders Jersey, the different species, more pest resistant, 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.