Guyana- IICA to develop bio-fortified rice variety in the Caribbean
(MENAFN - Caribbean News Global) GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (DPI) â Guyana's ministry of agriculture's rice research station has collaborated with the Inter- American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) to develop a bio-fortified rice variety with nutritionally enhanced Zinc. Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha on Friday visited the rice research station, located in Burma, Region Five, to assess the trial plots currently under cultivation with the bio-fortified rice. Minister Mustapha was very impressed with the progress made with the development and pledged the ministry's ...
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