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GFC completes workshop
…90 per cent increase in forestry association
The Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FOA) has embarked on a National Forest Programme (NFP) project that focuses primarily on enhancing the implementation of forest policy and guidelines for the benefit of community and rural development, held the last day of a two days workshop at the GFC Kingston Friday.
Some of the participants at the Workshop.
Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud, noted that the GFC has tremendous importance on the national and international level, since at the national level 20,000 Guyanese are employed and value of export is under $US50M.
Stakeholders’ involvement in addressing direct issues that affects and impacts them is vital.
The Minister explained that communities have expressed their interest in working together under the loggers associations.
He said that Guyana is among six countries in the world that practises sustainable forest management at the level of the concession. This is a proud achievement, he added.
It was revealed that in the last two years there has been a 90 per cent increase in forestry organisations, while there are 45 community associations and more than 300,000 hectares of states forest has been issued to community association in seventy three concessions.
The main export markets are Asia Pacific region for logs and undressed lumber, Latin America and the Caribbean region for dressed lumber and split wood, and North America for round wood. All exports are set to remain stable for this year.
At the opening of the workshop Minister Persaud said that approximately 80 per cent of the country’s land area is covered with forest, and with a high percentage of forest cover, Guyana counts among the forest rich countries of the world.
“Which belong to the people of Guyana and it is for them to decide how to manage and how to share the benefits deriving from these forests.”
He disclosed that the national forest programme provides the forum to discuss the use, conservation and sustainable use of the country’s forest. A national forest programme is not unilateral developed forest sector plan and can be understood as the sum of all policies and practices governing the management of the country’s forest resources.
The concept note to enter into the NFP partnership was prepared by the Guyana Forestry Commission and special emphasis was placed on strengthening the role of small loggers association.
These small loggers associations perhaps present the largest group of forest stakeholders in Guyana. To fulfill this role, these small loggers associations must have the capacity to manage their own affairs and they must have the technical knowledge to conduct and monitor forest harvest operations in order to become a strong counterpart to the Guyana Forestry Commission.
An integral part of Guyana’s national forest programme is therefore to support these small loggers associations.
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