The proposed road link between Guyana and Brazil and the deep-water harbour here are among several key initiatives that their agricultural ministers discussed at a virtual engagement yesterday.
A Ministry of Agriculture release yesterday reported that Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha, along with Brazil’s Minister of Agriculture, Tereza Cristina; Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture’s (IICA) Director General, Dr Manuel Otero; and other officials from IICA, Guyana, and Brazil participated earlier in the day in discussions concerning “collaborative efforts” to improve Guyana’s agriculture sector.
Mustapha referred to the engagement as both “timely and important” and pointed out that recent amendments to the Partial Scope Agreement “augur well” for Guyana’s plans to increase rice production and tap into new markets by 2025.