This department is responsible for effective and efficiently managing and co-ordinating human, financial, physical and material resources necessary for the successful implementation and administration of the Ministry’s programmes and operations.

It ensure the formulation and implementation of policies and programmes which facilitate the development of agriculture and fisheries in Guyana, thereby contributing to the enhancement of rural life, the sustainable improvement of incomes of producers and other participants in the agricultural production and marketing chain; and the maintenance of a sound physical and institutional environment for present and future productive activities.