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Jan 05, 2010 News
Guyana has signed a trade agreement with Trinidad and Tobago that would allow 20 more of this country’s agro products to enter the twin-island republic.
The signing of the Guyana/Trinidad and Tobago Fresh Agricultural Produce and Forest Products Trade Protocol follows four years of negotiations.
The Protocol stipulates the terms and conditions relating to commercial shipments of defined agro-products from Guyana to Trinidad. The agreement dictates issues of packaging and packaging facilities, product quality, storage, inspection and certification, exporter/importer responsibilities, pesticide management and farm inspection.
“The finalization of the Trade Protocol comes in wake of Guyana’s increasing ability to export larger volumes of agriculture and forestry products to the region.
The ongoing market-led Grow More Food campaign has also resulted in a marked increase in food production targeting local, regional and international markets for which demand of specific agro-products exists.
The signing of the trade protocol between the two countries resulted from discussions which began in 2006 between Minister Persaud and his Trinidadian counterpart.
At that time, the Ministers had explored the possibility of increasing the number of admissible agro-products from Guyana to the island, which stood at about six items, after these discussions there was an increase that took the list to 26 items available for export.
Since then, several visits have been made to Guyana by Trinidadian agriculture officials, the most recent being in February when four officials from the twin-sland republic inspected several farms.
“With the continued increase in demand for food, Guyana, through the Ministry of Agriculture, will continue to increase exports to new and existing markets, as the country repositions itself to become once again the bread basket of the Caribbean,” the statement added.
The Ministry of Agriculture has therefore been encouraging farmers and exporters to utilize the opportunity, now available as a result of the trade accord, to export to the Trinidadian market.
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