2014
Guyana Marketing Corporation: Annual Report AGRICULTURE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
During the year 2014, the Guyana Marketing Corporation commenced forging relationship with a new category of stakeholders namely persons who utilize agricultural products for beauty enhancement. In addition, the corporation continued to work closely with prospective and current Agro-processors by conducting visits to agro-processing facilities, providing assistance in the creation of labels and sourcing of packaging materials, creating market linkages, assisting in promoting their products, among others. Updating of GMC’s Agro- processors Database New Agro-processors were included on the Agro-processor‟s database, while information was revised for existing Agro-processors during the reporting year. Visits to Agro-processing Establishments During 2014, visits were made to eleven agro-processing industries that are located in regions 3, 4, 5 and 10. The objectives of these visits were to ascertain the operations that are carried out at the processing sites and provide recommendations and assistance where necessary to improve the respective business operations. Training A training seminar was conducted with members of the ABLEHAND group of the Wismar Baptist Church on July 24th 2014. The areas covered during the training seminar were “Labelling Requirements for AgroProcessed Products.” and “Local Market Entry Requirements
for
Agro-Processed
Products.” Importantly, the ABLEHAND group is a disability fund project that is being executed by the Wismar Baptist Church Sign Language Group. This group is aimed at supporting action for building long term economic empowerment among its members.
Figure 13: Agri-business Development Training for ABLEHAND Group in Linden
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