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Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha surrounded by contractors and Ministry staff at the signing of the contracts on Tuesday (Photo: Ministry of Agriculture/ August 9, 2022)
While another contract amounting to $45.1 million was awarded to the Garnet Engineers. This contract is for the supply of new boiler tubes and refractory materials.
These contracts were awarded just a day after $5.5 billion was allocated to the Ministry of Agriculture. The allocation is a supplementary appropriation allotted to the ministry for further development in the sector. Of this amount, some $3.4 billion was allocated to GUYSUCO.
The minister reminded the contractors that the work must be done in a timely manner and must be done properly.
He said, “We have been constantly signing new contracts to ensure that we discharge our responsibility to the people of our country. You are who contractors are chosen to help us to execute our work programme in a timely manner.”
He also noted that these contracts are very important for the development of the agriculture sector because the sugar and livestock industry will be revitalised. Therefore, bolstering the country to meet its food security target.
“In the agriculture sector we are seeing a lot of exciting activities and the future of Agriculture looks very bright in terms of moving the country’s production and at the same time the leadership in the Caribbean.”
“A number of countries are looking forward for us to lead the agriculture sector,” the minister added.
