Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud and a team of officers recently visited Santa Fe Inc., mega farm in the Rupununi, to get an update from communities and other stakeholders on the environmental and social impacts of the project, GINA said.
The project by the Simpson family of Barbados entails the large-scale cultivation of rice and other crops. Concerns have been raised about the possible run off of chemical-laced effluents into nearby creeks and the river.
GINA said that at a community meeting which was attended by the Regional Chairman, Wilson Lorentio, Chairman of the