The Government will have three mega- farms in operation by September of this year, according to Minister of Food Production, Land and Marine Affairs Vasant Bharath."We now have a situation where three of the mega-farms, the licensee holders have now received all of the approvals and my mandate to the licensee holders and the Ministry of Food Production is that we must have three mega-farms up and running before September of this year," he said.
The farms are the Technology Farm Estate in Enterprise, the Tucker Valley Farm and a rice-growing consortium called Three Brothers."This consortium is a Guyanese company that made an application for it and was approved...They are going to start growing rice in Central," Bharath said.He said what held up the mega-farms in the past was bureaucracy involved in the approval process.