The Ministry of Agricul-ture is continuing efforts to encourage farmers to diversify production by growing more non-traditional crops and spices by incorporating these into the research and learning institutions’ work programmes.
A release from the Agriculture Ministry said that the National Agricul-tural Research and Exten-sion Institute (NAREI), and the Guyana School of Agriculture (GSA) have been leading the diversification efforts by successfully growing demonstration plots of garlic, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, turmeric, ginger, black pepper and chick pea.
The Minister of Agricul-ture, Dr Leslie Ramsammy and senior staff along with the