FFTP continues to contribute to agricultural sector
As Guyana observes Agriculture Month under the theme “Accelerating Vision 25 by 2025: Investing in Agri-Business and Food Security,” Food For The Poor (Guy) Inc continues to play a major role in the development of the agricultural sector.
At the beginning of 2023, FFTP partnered with the Agriculture Ministry through the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute’s (NAREI) Spice Expansion Project to promote livelihood enhancement and food security in Region One (Barima Waini).
It donated agricultural tools such as hoes, machetes, forks, shovels, and files which saw 140 farmers from several villages in the Matarkai Sub District, Port Kaituma benefitting.
Some of the beneficiaries of agricultural tools
Further, it collaborated with Partners of the Americas through their Farmer-to-Farmer programme to host a five-day Organisational Management Workshop with the Central Mahaicony Perth Village Farmers Association. From this workshop, more than 15 farmers were able to benefit.
In addition, FFTP partnered with the Americas in April to host a five-day workshop for the Sandvoort Farmers Association and the West Berbice Sheep and Goat Association. This initiative saw 27 farmers successfully completing the programme.
A resident receiving a tiller
FFTP (Guy) Inc was also able to enhance the Agricultural Self-Sufficiency Programme of the Guyana Prison Service.
Back In 2022, it donated 108 units of basic tools, including hoes with handles, pickaxes, forks, machetes, shovel squares with handles, spades, and triangular files.
From this donation, the programme was able to harvest an average combined total of 1941 kg of vegetables and fruits in 2023.
Prisoners doing their part with the assistance of FFTP
Tillers were also distributed to the Sandvoort Beekeeping Group, the Sustainable Livelihood Marketing Producers Cooperation of Linden, and the Gibraltar Farmers Group.
Its agricultural programmes and projects are aimed at increasing production and improving cultivation through the implementation of climate-smart agriculture.
The impact FFTP (Guy) Inc is making in Guyana ties into the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2 – “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.”
