The Ministry of Agriculture yesterday inked over $340m in contracts including three for the purchase of equipment for GuySuCo.
A statement from the ministry said that the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) signed three contracts totaling $183.7m. The contracts were clinched with GENEQUIP for the supply and delivery of eight disc-ploughs, six trailing harrows, and ten four-wheel drive agricultural tractors. Five of the tractors will be used for mechanical tillage operations while the other five will be employed for operating mechanical rotary drain-ditchers, the release said.
Additionally, the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) signed a contract with Farm Supplies Limited for the procurement of a tractor and a fuel bowser totaling $10,146,000. This tractor, the release said, will be used to advance agriculture in Region Nine.