The St Stanislaus farm, established 41 years ago to be a live laboratory for students of St Stanislaus College to engage in and observe agricultural practices, has since grown to become a leader in the promotion of farming technology and agricultural sciences as well as a self-sustaining operation.
The intention, initially, had been to move the school to the 17-acre plot of land located in North Sophia, leaving behind the congestion that the city brought. However, when in 1975, then president Forbes Burnham made the decision to introduce agriculture into schools, the St Stanislaus farm was born.
Chairman of the St Stanislaus College Association and the St Stanislaus Farm Committee Chris Fernandes explained that the farm’s establishment came on the heels of Burnham’s identification of agriculture as one of the pillars on which Guyana’s