Cuban engineers who arrived here in May to assist the sugar industry will be here for 12 months based on performance and the government says attempts to recruit the skills locally failed.
In Parliament last week, Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha provided written responses to a series of questions posed by APNU+AFC MP Vinceroy Jordan.
Asked the purpose of the visiting team of engineers, Mustapha said: it will provide “critical support to promote the mechanization of agricultural operations as a means of improving agricultural productivity and to better utilize available human resources”. He added that they are engaged in mechanization initiatives – field layout development and training staff and maintenance requirements of field and factory equipment.