{"id":13015,"date":"2023-10-06T18:29:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T18:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=13015"},"modified":"2023-10-06T18:29:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T18:29:34","slug":"guyana-launches-agriculture-month-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/guyana-launches-agriculture-month-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana Launches Agriculture Month 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>The Ministry of Agriculture in Guyana inaugurated Agriculture Month 2023 with an interfaith service at its Regent Street Office. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This annual observance aims to highlight the significant advancements in the agriculture sector while showcasing investment opportunities to local, regional, and international investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Agriculture, Hon. Zulfikar Mustapha, emphasized the critical role agriculture plays as the backbone of Guyana&#8217;s economy. He outlined the government&#8217;s commitment to investing in the sector, with the goal of reducing the region&#8217;s food import bill by 25% by 2025 and achieving food security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The theme for Agriculture Month 2023 is &#8220;Accelerating Vision 25 by 2025: Investing in Agri-business and Food Security.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The month-long celebration will feature various activities, including Market Days and Open Days, the launch of Agro-Processing Facilities, Plant Distributions, and the highly anticipated Agri-Investment Forum at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year&#8217;s observance is particularly significant as Guyana undergoes a substantial transformation in the agriculture sector, with a focus on diversification and investments in climate-smart agriculture practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Agriculture in Guyana inaugurated Agriculture Month 2023 with an interfaith service at its Regent Street Office. This annual observance aims to highlight the significant advancements in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13017,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13015\/revisions\/13017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}