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Monday, May 12, 2008
Guyana's agricultural sector is under major criticism from regional counterparts who have complained about the produce being supplied to them from their southern neighbor. This time the complaints come from a food-manufacturing sector of Antigua, with one major bakery complaining of the quality of the Guyanese produced flour. Antigua and Barbuda recently switched to importing cheaper flour from Guyana to cushion the effect of a proposed 36 percent hike by the mills in the OECS. But Bertsfield Martin of Brownies Bakery, one of the largest producers and retailers of bread and other flour-based products in St John's has said the product from mills in St Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada was of better quality than the Guyanese product. Meanwhile Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo said some 600 thousand packets of seeds, fertilizer and pesticides worth 100 thousand dollars would be distributed across the country in a drive to maximize food production.
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