As its second soya bean crop for this year is currently being planted and government forges ahead with infrastructural support works at the Tacama Gold mega-farm in the Intermediate Savannahs, the consortium spearheading the project has confirmed plans for two crops per year, given better than projected yields.
And as it maps strategies for its investment—pegged at some $570 million to date—it anticipates having ample livestock feed supply to the Caricom regions from over 15,000 acres of land that would be utilized by 2027.
“We did quite well because this is all virgin soils. Right now, everything looks promising because one of the fields did three tonnes per hectare because we projected less, because this was a field that nothing was ever planted on before, ever. We went and put in the seeds and the area did magic,” Director of Tacama Gold David Fernandes told Stabroek News in an interview last week as he gave an update on the project.