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Black Bush Polder farmers urged to become “market savvy”

Oct 12, 2010 News

…farming community gets $275M infrastructure works

One of Berbice’s main agricultural areas, Black Bush Polder, in sore need for infrastructure development, is set to be upgraded with a number of key drainage and irrigation works to the tune of $275M. The contracts were signed yesterday by S.A. Nabi and Sons and CEMCO, a supervisory consultancy company.
The signing was part of the number of activities yesterday to celebrate Agriculture Month 2010, as Government officials also examined a field of a new line of experimental rice that is under cultivation at Lesbeholden, Black Bush Polder, Region Six, East Berbice.
The contracts will see the rehabilitation of 18 bridges, one outfall sluice, 22 secondary drainage structures, among other things.
According to Region Six Chairman, Zulficar Mustapha, Black Bush Polder is a crucial area in Berbice since its accounts for a significant portion of the production.
Over the last three years, an estimated 25,000 acres more land was put to cultivation in Berbice as the demand grew.
Head of the National Agricultural Research Institute, Dr Homenauth Oudho, yesterday urged farmers to explore ways to capitalise on resources. He pointed to the very real challenge of actual opportunity days being shortened because of a number of factors.
In some areas, farmers and other stakeholders even have to resort to planting at nights, he told a group of farmers and technicians gathered at the agricultural facility in Lesbeholden.
According to Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud, the fact that Guyana exports 70 per cent of the food it produces is evidence that the country cannot discount the impact of what happens on the overseas market will directly affect here.
Every farmer has the responsibility to be “market savvy” with Government standing by to increase its capacity to ensure that these needs are met.
Meanwhile, speaking to worried farmers who are still owed millions of dollars by Mahaicony Rice Limited (MRL) for past crops, General Secretary of the Guyana Rice Producers Association (RPA), Dharamkumar Seeraj, disclosed that the principals of the company are set to be in Guyana this week.

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