With Guyana, as a member country of CARICOM, having committed itself to the goal of reducing regional food imports by 25% by 2025, there exists, at this time, a disproportionate government emphasis on the oil and gas and agro-processing sectors, the preoccupation with the former seemingly having the effect of leaving the latter behind, operators in the sector who participated in the Stabroek Business’ recent ‘mini survey’ have told this newspaper.
“Don’t get me wrong. Oil and gas is the big [economic] deal in Guyana today. But we have to eat and if we are talking about food security we have to pay far more attention to areas like agro-processing.”