Machinery Corporation of Guyana (MACORP) has provided assistance to the New Amsterdam Technical Institute (NATI) machinery training programme. The company donated agricultural machinery that is being used by many large firms today.
The programme is seen as a collaborative one of NATI, MACORP and World University Service of Canada through the Product Enterprises and Linkages project. At the recent commissioning of the equipment, Principal of NATI, Maxine Thompson, appealed for greater collaboration among the institution and the various industries to ensure that students can be better trained. “This venture has occurred at a juncture when this institution is piloting eight courses using advanced technology in agriculture machinery.” According to Thompson, even though the programme is ongoing, staffers are handicapped since they too lack the relevant training.
Canadian High Commissioner Pierre Giroux and others inspecting the equipment
She further stated: “We are indeed grateful for the World University Service of Canada’s initiative of facilitating the linkage between NATI and the Machinery Corporation of Guyana, known as MACORP.”
MACORP has shown an interest in using NATI as a feeder by enlisting graduates of the institution’s agriculture machinery programme into its two-year training programme.
Meanwhile, local Director of World University Service of Canada, Doug Graham, noted that the PROPEL project is used to link persons and to improve and enhance the quality of agricultural produce.
Canadian High Commissioner to Guyana, Pierre Giroux, said that agriculture is a very important part of a country’s Gross Domestic Product, and one way to ensure that the quality of the local produce is improved, is to supply institutions like NATI with improved capacity and quality of instruments that will be used essentially to increase the quality of product.
