Regional agriculture ministers to meet in Guyana

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, – Agriculture ministers from four Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are to meet here later this week to discuss ways of procuring agricultural inputs at a reduced cost, Agriculture Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has announced.
He said the meeting over the next few days would include his counterparts from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts-Nevis and Dominica as the region moves to reduce costs in developing the agricultural sector.
“As the first thing we are starting with is fertiliser because in some countries they are buying fertilizer at a cost of US$1,200 per tonne when we can in fact buy it for about $300 per tonne and reduce one cost by 75 per cent,” he said.