Between 2015 and 2020, Guyana lost some of its export markets in the Caribbean region due to failures to adhere to regional sanitary and phytosanitary measures. Now, officials at the Agriculture Ministry have stated they will do their utmost to regain those markets.
Sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures are basically laws, regulations, standards and procedures that governments employ as “necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health” from the risks associated with the spread of pests, diseases, or disease-carrying and causing organisms.
In a report to the Parliamentary Economic Services Committee on Wednesday, Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha said the government was also working to remove regional barriers to exports and trade of agricultural products. “We already had meetings with Barbados and St. Vincent and we now have Guyanese produce going back to those markets.”
Source: newsroom.gy
