By Jeff Trotman
Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy has said that the days of subsistence farming are over and while small farmers realise that they must move away from that mindset, they are stuck in the old way of doing things.
Speaking at a farmers’ meeting at the Guyana International Con-ference Centre during the just concluded Caribbean Week of Agriculture, Ramsammy said for several years now there has been a lot of talk of moving away from subsistence, backyard farming to establishing small enterprises.
He said that a lot of people grew up when cash crops were used to feed the family and the excess produce was used to supply the local market but