The Ministry of Agriculture yesterday signed contracts worth $1.3 billion for 35 projects countrywide, with Gaico Construction and General Services Inc being allocated the largest – $569.3 million for the dredging of the Pomeroon River mouth.
Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha said that the dredging of the Pomeroon River mouth will bring relief to farmers in the area who have been affected by floods time and time again.
General Equipment Guyana Limited received the second largest contract of $143.1 million to provide two complete sets of land levelling equipment for the Guyana Sugar Corporation, as well as a turbine for the Uitvlugt Estate. The land levelling equipment will contribute to the development of 50 per cent of the lands which are earmarked to be converted over a four-year period at Albion estate.