Strong, officially backed ‘buy local’ advocacy is one of the recommendations which the Head of the Guyana Agro Processors Association, the umbrella body for at least 25 small and medium-sized local food manufacturing entities, is expected to make in his presentation at today’s National Agro-processing Forum at the Inter-national Conference Centre, Liliendaal.
“It is absolutely not a matter of campaigning against foreign imports. It is really a matter of saying to consumers that the local products are fully deserving of their support and patronage because they are just as good in terms of quality and they are as healthy and as nutritious as much of what we import,”