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Home / Top Featured Article / Guyana’s president asserts ‘breadbasket’ label in call to eat Caribbean food Guyana’s president asserts ‘breadbasket’ label in call to eat Caribbean food
Article by May 29, 2021
Guyana’s President Dr Irfaan Ali on Friday has urged the Caribbean Community to move away from consuming poor-quality imported food and eat food grown in CARICOM.
Nine months into the presidency of the vast, resource-rich CARICOM state in South America, the 41-year-old sought to reassert Guyana’s long-held identity “breadbasket of the Caribbean”. He invoked the name of a past president’s pro-farming policy as he urged the 15-nation bloc to eat more of what it grows, slash its $9 billion (US$4.5 billion) food import bill and improve health and nutrition.