Guyana wants support from Brazil to boost agricultural leadership in the Caribbean

The Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply of Brazil, Tereza Cristina, and the Minister of Agriculture of Guyana, Zulfikar Mustapha, held a meeting, which was attended by the Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Manuel Otero, which sought to give impetus to bilateral trade and food production in Guyana to supply the Caribbean. Brazil and Guyana also seek to strengthen a broad cooperation agenda in several areas, such as trade, infrastructure, animal health and technology transfer, and it is expected that ministers, after the first virtual meeting facilitated by IICA, will accelerate negotiations with a meeting probably in August, at the suggestion of Minister Tereza Cristina. "On the agenda is the possibility of cooperation in the areas of agricultural defense, technical assistance, research and actions for family farming," said the Brazilian minister after the meeting. Minister Mustapha, in turn, expressed interest in ...