Guyana’s coconut exports continue to attract markets in the Caribbean and North America according to the Ministry of Agriculture’s Commodity Market Update for the second quarter of this year though prices slipped gradually but continually during the first six months of the year. Up to the end of June this year export demand for coconuts which has persisted for some time now continued to increase topping 3,140 metric tonnes at the end of the June this year. Coconut exports, however, remained well below the 10,826.57 tonnes of coconuts produced locally during the same period. According to the ministry’s update, coconut prices slipped from $119.9 per kilogramme in April to $112.2 at the end of June.
For the same period plantain exports