Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha, commissioning a seed processing facility in Lesbeholden, Black Bush Polder yesterday, stressed that rice is an important sector to the government of Guyana.
He explained that the project was started in 2014 and partially commissioned after which technical issues developed. Then there was a change of government with the APNU+AFC taking over, “so from 2015 to 2020 this project left at a standstill, what we did prior to the partial commissioning in 2014 it remained like that until elections were held again in 2020,” Mustapha stated.