An already popular industry in Guyana is expected to get a US$77M boost in six years thanks to a Canadian Government initiative.The Canadian Government, through the Canadian Hunger Foundation (CHF), has turned its eyes to Guyana’s plantain industry with the aim of enhancing the industry’s productivity and marketing, not only locally but internationally.According to the CHF, the new initiative falls under the Promotion of Regional Opportunities for Produce through Enterprises and Linkages (PROPEL) project. The PROPEL project will seek to increase the value of Caribbean fresh produce by approximately $US77M (CAD$100M) in a six-year timeline.For Guyana, the plantain industry will be the main focus, CHF said,Cheap NHL Jerseys Online, and will see small,Cheap Jerseys For Sale, medium and large-scale agricultural producers benefitting from the partnership. “In Guyana, PROPEL is working with plantain producers to enhance productivity with a view of facilitating market access for plantains,” the CHF said. It continued, “The plantain product support program is accessible to all commercial plantain producers in Guyana, possessing adequate infrastructure to respond to markets and market opportunities.”The CHF shared that the project will provide support to plantain producers through a number of processes. These include the facilitation of linkages to market opportunities for local and overseas markets; the enhancement of production and improvement of management practices; training programs in plantain management/agronomy; farmer field schools; the provision of extension services; farmer to farmer/farm exchange visits; support for on farm research and demonstration plots/trials; and support to generate high quality planting materials through mass propagation systems.Furthermore, CHF said that it will aid to strengthen producers’ ability to respond to quality standard requirements of markets.According to CHF, farmers must meet a number of criteria to participate in the PROPEL project. CHF said that the producer can be an individual, business, producer group or cooperative entity engaged in primary agricultural production, with plantains being one of the crops cultivated in commercial quantities. This quantity was cited as a minimum of 300 suckers.Furthermore,Cheap Wholesale Jerseys, CHF said that the crop of plantains can be of one age group or a combination of various cropping cycles while the individual or entity must be willing and able to participate in aspects of the projects plantain production program.“The individual or entity must be willing to cooperate with CHF and all other stakeholders which shall include other producers, government agencies, non-governmental organisations and providers of technical services,” CHF added.In Guyana, the use of plantains is very popular. For years, persons have been tapping into the use of the produce and have begun selling plantain chips as a value added option.The PROPEL project is one which has been ongoing for a number of years. Outside of Guyana,Cheap Soccer Jerseys Free Shipping, the PROPEL project has been implemented in other Caribbean countries including Barbados,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale, Jamaica, Grenada, Dominica,Jerseys NFL China, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago. More than 25,000 farmers from across the Caribbean are expected to benefit from the initiative.The project aims to lower the high import rates of fresh produce into the Caribbean.PROPEL is funded by the Canadian Government through the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development and the CHF.