Local producers tap $340M agro-diversification fund

By Stabroek News On In Guyana News |
Some of the recipients of the Ministry of Agriculture’s Agricultural Diversification Fund pose with the cheques and grants received at yesterday’s fund launch.
Some of the recipients of the Ministry of Agriculture’s Agricultural Diversification Fund pose with the cheques and grants received at yesterday’s fund launch.

Local livestock, fruit and vegetable producers yesterday received the first disbursements from a $340M Agricultural Diversification Fund that has been launched to boost non-traditional agriculture exports.

The first loans under the 10-year Agriculture Export Diversification Programme (AED), being supported by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), were disbursed at a launch