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Posted on Monday, November 23, 2009 by admin in Internet Outage |

Through years of research determining which elements and their combinations affect plant growth, scientists (inadvertently at first) discovered the first hydroponic formulas. This allowed for greater control over plant nutrition and therefore increased production.

A more than GUY$40 million (US$192.239) investment in hydroponics in Guyana’s capital city is reaping success and the country’s Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud is encouraging other farmers to invest similarly.

Investor Gerald Mekdeci has invested the sum into a hydroponics venture in Georgetown and Persaud said local entrepreneurs have been taking up government’s call to adopt new technology to mitigate the effects of climate change and to improve crop production.

Hydroponics farming utilizes the use of nutrients in water instead of soil to ensure controlled high quality balanced nutrition for the plant.
Hydroponics in Guyana farmers

Persaud, accompanied by the National Agricultural Research Institute’s (NARI) Director, Dr Oudho Homenauth visited the farm on Water Street, where he noted that technology and initiatives such as hydroponics are needed in the agriculture sector to deal with some of the challenges.

Dr Homenauth said the technology would aid in combating the effects of climate change as it could be used year round and has the potential of creating quality produce since it uses a reduced level of fertilizer. The commodities are also free of pests and diseases.

The Agriculture Minister said he hoped other farmers would take up similar initiatives since NARI was propagating the use of this technology around the country. The Ministry of Agriculture has been exposing farmers to technology such as the use of greenhouses and semi-greenhouses in an effort to alleviate the effects of climate change and garner better crop yields.

Minister Persaud said farmers contemplating the use of this type of technology will be given technical advice and support through the Agriculture Diversification Programme, the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) and NARI.

Investor Mekdeci said he had farmed in the intermediate savannah but because of heavy transportation costs he had considered building green houses right in Georgetown. The first greenhouse was built in 2007 and three others were set up this year.

He noted that because the business was profitable he was able to access loans and he would expand and build six other greenhouses which he hopes to complete in another two months.

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