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Govt turns to India for spice processing equipment

Mar 22, 2014 News

The acquisition of spice processing equipment will add further impetus to the local spice industry, especially in Region One. This has been the main issue with farmers who are planting turmeric and ginger.
Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, recently said that the Ministry with funds from the 2013 Budget, was able to source from India, semi processors for processing spices at Hosororo in Region One, even as the Ministry is making arrangements to upgrade the entire nursery in that community.
As a component of the diversification process, and towards transforming the economies of hinterland communities,  the Ministry of Agriculture  initiated in 2008 a spice project in communities in Regions One, Seven, Eight and Nine, where soil type is appropriate for the cultivation of spices such as turmeric (dye), ginger, black pepper and nutmeg.
Minister Ramsammy said that in Hosororo, the farmers’ success in turmeric production was affected following constraints in getting the product to Georgetown. The addition of the semi processor will see turmeric being reduced to a powder form, thus making it easier for transport to the market in the Capital.
The ministry is set to install the equipment in a few weeks.
Meanwhile, with Guyana’s farine gaining popularity outside of its traditional users, the Ministry of Agriculture had moved to semi-industrialisation for the processing of the item made from cassava.
It is moving the crop production from a subsistence level to an actual industry. Work in this regard was initiated with the communities of Tapacuma and Wowetta to improve on their production practices.
The Ministry had also moved to acquire semi processors for these communities. “We are trying to find the appropriate equipment. We went to Brazil to find those, but we were not able to procure the equipment that we need, and so right now we are trying to procure those equipment out of India, to resuscitate Tapacuma and replace all the equipment they have.
“The equipment that they had there was not appropriate and so we are procuring both those equipment for St. Deny’s/ Tapacuma and Wowetta,” Minister Ramsammy explained.
Government’s holistic approach to agricultural development takes into consideration a vision that is cognisant of the fact that agriculture must continue to be a strategic sector in the medium to long-term for food and nutrition security, it must generate employment, reduce imports, and enhance exports of agricultural produce.
The focus on diversification of the sector is just one means of achieving this; there is also the promotion of food and nutrition security, through the transfer of appropriate technologies. (GINA)

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