-limestone to be imported for soil
A trial cultivation of soya beans in the Berbice intermediate savannahs has found it “very feasible” since two crops per year are possible as opposed to only one in northern Brazil and it is expected to result in a seven per cent reduction in the import of the crop for stock feed this year, local investor and businessman David Fernandes says.
It is because of the successful trial and government’s commitment to assist in the infrastructural development of the area that sees local investors now forging ahead with developing some 3,000 acres, having already ordered over 3,000 tonnes of limestone to mix with the earth, as they prepare the lands for large-scale farming.
“What we saw with the first trial – that first trial in 2021 – was that we could get two crops for the one year. We planted two successful crops and what that did was confirm to us that the region has enough rainfall that can give us what the Roraima region in Brazil and Rupununi cannot give us – two crops per year,” Fernandes of Bounty Farms told the Sunday Stabroek in an interview.