The Ministry of Agriculture will be rolling out the Black Belly Sheep programme shortly as 850 of the animals have been received to date from Barbados and it is expecting the remaining 100 to arrive soon.
This was disclosed by Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha during an interview with the Department of Public Information (DPI) on the sidelines of an event on Monday.
According to DPI, this specific breed is primarily raised for meat and other high-demand by-products and Guyana has enough land, suitable climate, and all other requirements for increasing the production of the sheep. “I am hoping within a few weeks from now we can get that but we’ll start to roll out the programme shortly. I will not wait until the 100 arrive. We have close to about 850 now in the country,” the minister stated.