27 Reg 5 farmers receive training in capacity building

Twenty-seven farmers in Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) were part of an Organisational Management Training Workshop as part of the Food For the Poor (Guyana) Inc/Partners of the Americas, Farmer to Farmer Programme collaboration – Capacity Building Training Programme.

The farmers were drawn from the Sandvoort Farmers’ Association and West Coast Berbice Sheep and Goat Association.
The training was held from April 18 to 26 and focused on effective communication, emotional intelligence, team building/dynamics developing an organisation’s mission/vision, aims and objectives, and organisational structure and roles and responsibilities.

This initiative was held with the aim of training the farmers to gain economies of scale and effectively compete in Guyana’s growing and developing economy.

The training was conducted by a volunteer specialist from the USA recruited by Partners of the Americas, Rozetta Williams.
This is the second batch of farmers trained in Organisational Management through the FFTP (Guyana) Inc/Partners of the Americas collaboration; the first batch was Perth Central Mahaicony Farmers’ Association, Perth Village, West Coast Berbice.