First Lady to officiate at World Food Day Competition
First Lady Sandra Granger, Education Minister Dr Rupert Roopnaraine and Food and Agricul-ture Organization (FAO) Resi-dent Representative in Guyana Reuben Robertson will officiate at this year’s World Food Day Secondary Schools Home Economics Competition to be held on Wednesday October 21, at the Ministry of Education Ground, Carifesta Avenue, Georgetown.
Sandra Granger
The event is being staged by the FAO in collaboration with Ministry of Education.
A release from the FAO office in Guyana says that the competition seeks to allow secondary school students to showcase their talent in food and nutrition as well as address a number of key issues of relevance to national food security such as post-harvest processing of local produce, healthy lifestyles, and innovative ways of preparing locally produce foods.
This year’s event will focus on the promotion of root crops in Guyana,
READ Project boosts sheep, goat farmers’ income by 15-25%
The West Berbice Sheep and Goat Farmers Association, one of the local agricultural groups that benefited from the Rural Enterprise and Agricultural Development Project (READ) and which embraces villages extending from Profit to Rosignol, saw increased income by between 15 and 25 per cent on account of tools and equipment received from the project, Agriculture Minister Noel Holder said at last Sunday’s 8th Annual Livestock