Up to 65 farmers’ groups from various regions of the country will benefit from grants totalling around $120 million and loans totalling $38 million through a US$6 million loan/grant facility extended to the Government of Guyana by the Inter-national Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) under the Rural Enterprise and Agricultural Development (READ) project.
The project, which is being implemented by the Agricul-ture Ministry’s Agriculture Sector Development Unit (ASDU) with direct supervision from IFAD and which is currently being implemented in Regions 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10,