{"id":13284,"date":"2023-10-17T21:26:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T21:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=13284"},"modified":"2023-10-17T21:26:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T21:26:31","slug":"facilitating-agricultural-growth-with-the-tacama-wharf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/facilitating-agricultural-growth-with-the-tacama-wharf\/","title":{"rendered":"Facilitating Agricultural Growth with the Tacama Wharf"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>David Fernandes, the Director of Tacama Gold Incorporated, reports that construction of the wharf in Tacama, Region 10, is currently underway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This critical infrastructure will play a vital role in supporting the corn and soybean project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the commitment made in 2022 to reduce the food import bill by 25 percent by 2025, the government has invested approximately $1.2 billion in infrastructural development in the Tacama area, Berbice River. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes the construction of 40 kilometers of road, the country\u2019s first drying and storage facility for corn and soybeans, and a wharf worth 150 million dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fernandes emphasizes that the wharf will significantly improve river access to the cultivated land, streamlining transportation for farmers and facilitating export activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha expresses his satisfaction with the project&#8217;s success, which has exceeded initial expectations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plans for expansion are already in motion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This large-scale initiative involves collaboration between the government, farmers, and private companies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is projected to reduce imports of corn and soybeans by 50 percent by 2025, resulting in an annual import cost savings of over 10 million US dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Fernandes, the Director of Tacama Gold Incorporated, reports that construction of the wharf in Tacama, Region 10, is currently underway. This critical infrastructure will play a vital role in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-local-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13284","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=13284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13286,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13284\/revisions\/13286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}