Design and Development of Commercial Plant Tissue Culture Lab at Guyana

The Sustainable Agriculture Division of TERI has signed an MoU with the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI), Ministry of Agriculture, Guyana, to establish a commercial plant tissue culture laboratory with an annual production capacity of one million plants. The objective of this lab is to enable large-scale micropropagation of Guyana’s key crops—such as pineapple, plantain, breadfruit, and strawberry—to enhance farmers’ livelihoods. Scheduled to become operational in the last quarter of 2025, the facility is poised to revolutionize the production of genetically uniform, high-quality, and disease-resistant plantlets, catering to the growing demand for planting materials both locally and internationally.

Project progress site inspected by Mr Zulfikar Mustapha, Agriculture Minister, Govt. of Guyana and Mr Jagnarine Singh, CEO, NAREI. This was coordinated by TERI’s project staff Mr Vijay Shankar Thakur.