Timothy Innis, appearing CEO, Nationwide Drainage and Irrigation Authority shakes the hand of Chairman of Blumberg Grain, Phillip Blumberg, after signing a Memorandum of Understanding, as Minister of Finance Ashni Singh, Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha, and US Ambassador to Guyana Nicole Theriot, look on. The hub will probably be established at Yarrowkabra, on the Soesdyke-Linden Freeway.
Picture courtesy Guyana Division of Info
Phillip Blumberg, chairman of mega American firm Blumberg Grain & Logistics, introduced on July 9 that Guyana would be the firm’s central regional hub for meals insecurity and agriculture improvement in South America and expressed confidence in President Irfaan Ali’s imaginative and prescient for farming within the Republic.
The historic signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Blumberg within the boardroom of the Ministry of Agriculture within the presence of the U.S. Ambassador to Guyana, Nicole Theriot, Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha, and Minister of Finance Ashni Singh is a collaboration on the advertising and marketing and branding of the regional meals hub at present beneath development at Yarrowkabra, on the Soesdyke-Linden Freeway.
“I’m very targeted on funding in Guyana. President Ali is a superb advocate for this nation’s emergence as probably the most food-secure nation on this planet. There’s a lot to do right here,” stated Blumberg, through the press convention, including.
“President Ali needs a meals hub, and Minister Mustapha has bolstered that Guyana will serve not simply this nation, however Caricom and components of Northern South America. We’re ready to hitch them in that effort to create a major regional hub. My confidence within the president’s imaginative and prescient for this nation permits me to make an announcement right here as we speak that I’ve not made publicly, stated Blumberg, including that he’ll arrange the Blumberg Grain hub, full with employees.
“President Ali and Minister Zulfikar Mustapha made it very clear what their targets have been. My enterprise takes me to many international locations around the globe and visits with heads of state and ministers of agriculture, and I need to say, you could have a superb group right here in Guyana.”
He added that President Ali’s imaginative and prescient, Minister Mustapha’s implementation, and the Minister of Finance’s skill to assist get issues carried out whereas working along with his group have supplied nice data.”
“Our firm’s targets right here in Guyana are to cut back post-harvest loss. Whereas Guyana is a self-sufficient nation, we will cut back the loss farmers maintain from their fields to market. This won’t solely enhance the exportable merchandise within the agriculture sector, however we may also give attention to CARICOM and Northern South America as we make our investments. Which means extra earnings will go to farmers if there’s a extra marketable high quality of agricultural items. It’s a greater world to your farmers, and our farmers,” stated Blumberg.
Minister Mustapha applauded Guyana’s transformational progress since 2020. He stated Guyana is the one nation on this planet that may feed its residents.
“That could be a super achievement for us as a result of once we began in 2020, we noticed a sector that was run down; Guyana had misplaced its place in CARICOM. In the present day, beneath the visionary management of President Irfaan Ali, Guyana is main the meals safety agenda within the area,” stated the Minister.
Blumberg Grain, which works intently with governmental authorities on the state, nationwide, and worldwide ranges, goals to speculate not solely in Guyana but in addition within the South American area, the place there was a dialogue on rice, meat, and poultry.
The settlement lays the inspiration for integrating trendy advertising and marketing methods and branding mechanisms to broaden Guyana’s agricultural exports, cut back post-harvest losses, and safe a extra substantial presence within the CARICOM and South American markets.
“I’m completely thrilled to be right here as we speak to witness this partnership — step one in an extremely necessary collaboration between Bloomberg Grain and the visionary Authorities of Guyana. President Ali informed me from the start that meals safety is a high precedence. This deal goes past CARICOM. It has the potential to alter lives throughout your entire area, and I’m proud this partnership entails a US firm,” Ambassador Theriot stated.
“The fact is we’re ready to spend money on processing on our account, of Guyana’s agricultural merchandise. Which means the next worth to farmers and a better strategy to export. The president challenged us with making a model that may be exported to the US on a really giant market,” stated Blumberg.
In keeping with www.blumbergpartners.com, Blumberg Grain’s enlargement efforts embrace deploying meals safety and grain storage logistics platforms (warehouses and silos), chilly chain know-how with managed environment, creating strategic stockpiles for nations in want of additional meals safety, and creating course of amenities in-country so as to add worth to home crops, manufacturing, and export merchandise.
