As we celebrate Agriculture Month, under the theme “Accelerating Vision 25 by 2025: Investing in Agri-Business and Food Security,” FFTP (Guy) Inc. is highlighting some of the work we have done in 2023.
At the beginning of 2023, we partnered with the Ministry of Agriculture through the National Agriculture Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) Spice Expansion Project to promote livelihood enhancement and food security in Region 1 (Barima Waini). We donated simple agricultural tools such as hoes, machetes, forks, shovels, and files. One hundred and forty (140) farmers from villages in the Matarkai Sub District, Port Kaituma were able to benefit.
We collaborated with Partners of the Americas through their Farmer to Farmer program to host a five-day Organizational Management Workshop with the Central Mahaicony Perth Village Farmers Association. From this workshop, more than fifteen farmers were able to benefit.
We collaborated again with Partners of 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 twenty-seven farmers successfully completing the program.
FFTP (Guy) Inc. was also able to enhance the Agricultural Self-Sufficiency Program of the Guyana Prison Service. In 2022, we 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 program was able to harvest an average combined total of 1941 kg of vegetables and fruits in 2023.
We also donated tillers to the Sandvoort Beekeeping Group, Sustainable Livelihood Marketing Producers Cooperation of Linden (along with forks, hoes, pickaxes, and files) and the Gibraltar Farmers Group.
Our agricultural programs 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 United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #2 – “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.”
Food for the Poor (Guy) Inc. has been making significant contributions to agriculture for many years and supports the government’s agenda of developing the agriculture sector.