President of the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA), Rafeek Khan on Friday challenged the country to deliver on the vision of being the regional breadbasket and to cut food imports.
Speaking at a GMSA business luncheon in the presence of Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha who had been invited to address the gathering in anticipation of Agriculture Month, Khan said “Guyana has been an important supplier of fresh farm produce and processed farm products to the Caribbean. While we have the potential to be the breadbasket of the Caribbean, I would like to challenge our dear country of Guyana to realize this ambitious desire locally first”.
He said that in previous years, imports of agricultural products far exceeded exports, and there needs to be a strategy to reverse this continuous trend.