Latest update December 18th, 2024 5:45 AM

Guyana's largest selling daily and New York's most popular weekly

Latest News

Agriculture Ministry’s 2013/2020 strategic plan to focus on technological advancement

Mar 15, 2014 News

The Ministry of Agriculture will soon launch its 2013/2020 Strategic Plan highlighting the priority works to accelerate agricultural development and by extension Guyana, since the country is largely dependent on that sector.
This is according to Agriculture Minister, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, recently, at a workshop/ presentation of the Managing Flood Risk in Guyana Report.
An integral part of the strategy will focus on capacity building in certain technical areas such as LIDAR and GIS technologies to propel development.
Dr. Ramsammy enlightened that Guyana needs to enhance its capacity in the use of GIS technology, which has become an imperative in the Ministry’s planning. The use of GIS and other technologies are not new but have not been integrated into the capacity building programmes of Guyana.
“We have flirted with them over the years but we have not built capacity. Nothing we have done in Guyana in the past has contributed towards integrating such technologies into the Agriculture sector as the Conservancy Adaptation Programme,” he said.
The Minister’s ambition is to ensure that within the developmental period, (2013/20120) Guyana will build an indigenous capacity for the use of technologies such as LIDAR and GIS.
He said, “We have used those technologies in Guyana now, the studies completed on the conservancy have used that technology, and we have begun to use the technology in other places like the Amaila Falls Road project for example.”
Dr. Ramsammy said that Guyana is almost absolutely dependent on recruiting external technical support to execute such studies. He suspects that in 2020 Guyana will still need that support but is hoping that the country will not be absolutely dependent on it.
According to the Minister, these investments could help to propel Guyana’s development from being a middle income status country to a higher middle income country.
“Guyana as a priority must focus on infrastructural development for sustaining its development path and more importantly accelerating that path. Guyana not surprisingly, has ambitions to be a higher middle income country,” he said.
The Minister reflected that in 1990 former President Dr. Cheddi Jagan said it is not impossible for countries like Guyana to raise its status “For those of us who doubt that there were people like us at another time who doubted that Guyana could have risen from a low developing country status into a middle income country. I do not see it impossible for that to happen. But the development of our infrastructure is critical in the pursuit of that ambition,” he said.

Similar Articles

The Glenn Lall Show | December, 2nd, 2024

Follow on Tik Tok @Glennlall

 

THE BLUNT OF THE DAY

Sports

Clarendon College too good for Dolphin as Annai Sec’ holds Speyside College to 4-all draw

Clarendon College too good for Dolphin as Annai Sec’ holds Speyside...

Dec 18, 2024

-KFC Goodwill Int’l Football Series heats up today Kaieteur News- The Petra Organisation’s fifth Annual KFC International Secondary Schools Goodwill Football Series intensified yesterday with two...
Read More
Glasgow excited for MLS journey with Chicago Fire

Glasgow excited for MLS journey with Chicago Fire

Dec 18, 2024

Matthews slams unbeaten 85 as Windies Women hammer India by nine wickets to level series

Matthews slams unbeaten 85 as Windies Women...

Dec 18, 2024

No room to breathe as five more teams to advance to quarters tomorrow

No room to breathe as five more teams to advance...

Dec 18, 2024

Sammy to be appointed as West Indies Senior Men’s Head Coach for all formats

Sammy to be appointed as West Indies Senior...

Dec 17, 2024

Bangladesh hold nerve to defend 148 and take 1-0 T20I series lead over West Indies

Bangladesh hold nerve to defend 148 and take 1-0...

Dec 17, 2024

Features/Columnists

Publisher’s Note

Freedom of speech is our core value at Kaieteur News. If the letter/e-mail you sent was not published, and you believe that its contents were not libellous, let us know, please contact us by phone or email.

Feel free to send us your comments and/or criticisms.
Contact: 624-6456; 225-8452; 225-8458; 225-8463; 225-8465; 225-8473 or 225-8491.
Or by Email: [email protected] / [email protected]

Weekend Cartoon

Bridge Watch

Demerara Harbour Bridge

> Berbice Bridge […]