President views mushroom cultivation during China visit
Stabroek News
April 3, 2003
A potential area for cooperation between Guyana and China is the cultivation of mushrooms and last weekend President Bharrat Jagdeo had an extensive briefing on the advances made in mushroom planting when he visited the Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University which specialises in scientific research projects.
The Guyanese leader who concluded his state visit to the People’s Republic of China on Tuesday was able to view stages of cultivation of the various species of mushrooms at the university in Fujian City, the capital of Fuzhou Province, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a release yesterday.
And teams from both Guangzhou and Fuzhou are expected here some time to explore trade and investment possibilities following agreement by the provincial leadership.
In addition, a friendship agreement was signed between the cities of George-town and Fuzhou by Mayor Hamilton Green and the mayor of that city.
President Jagdeo who witnessed the signing of the friendship agreement also had an opportunity to look at some of the advanced technologies adopted by various companies in tile and timber manufacturing in Fuzhou.
Earlier, Jagdeo went to Guangzhou City in the Province of Guangdong and visited one of the villages in the city with ancestral links to Guyana. The president also met with the Governor of Guangdong Province, Huang Huahua, and in their discussions Jagdeo commended the governor for the high level of progress which the province had made in its key role in the reform process for opening up China’s economy, the release said.
President Jagdeo was accompanied by a number of representatives from the local private sector and they had opportunity to initiate contacts and to explore avenues for expanding business in their respective areas of interest, the release added.
Guangdong province has come under intense international scrutiny over the outbreak of a deadly viral infection. The World Health Organisation (WHO) urged travellers yesterday to avoid Hong Kong and China’s southern Guangdong Province, where hundreds more of cases of a deadly pneumonia virus were reported.
The WHO said it did not think the disease, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) had peaked.
It was the first travel warning the United Nations’ body has ever issued for health reasons. Earlier travel warnings were concerned with war and other conflicts.
