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Guyana Livestock
Livestock production was not a major activity in Guyana because
of a shortage of adequate pasture land and the lack of adequate
transportation. In 1987 there were an estimated 210,000 cattle,
185,000 pigs, 120,000 sheep, and 15 million chickens in the
country. The country imported Cuban Holstein-Zebu cattle in the
mid-1980s in an effort to make Guyana self-sufficient in milk
production; by 1987 annual production had reached 32 million
liters, or only half the target quantity.
MINING
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Bauxite mining in the interior
Courtesy Leslie B. Johnson, Sr.
Guyana's mining sector offered the best hope of rapid growth in
the late 1980s. The government's decision to open the sector to
foreign management and investment attracted interest from companies
in a number of countries, including the United States, Canada,
Brazil, Norway, and Australia. Guyana was known to have sizable
reserves of bauxite, gold, and diamonds. Foreign investment was
expected to dramatically increase the rate at which those reserves
were mined.
Data as of January 1992
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