{"id":13400,"date":"2023-10-20T18:54:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T18:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=13400"},"modified":"2023-10-20T18:55:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T18:55:28","slug":"agriculture-symposium-stresses-collaboration-and-innovation-for-food-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/agriculture-symposium-stresses-collaboration-and-innovation-for-food-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Agriculture Symposium Stresses Collaboration and Innovation for Food Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha emphasized the importance of modernizing farming techniques and sharing best practices to achieve food security. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He spoke during the opening of an agriculture symposium held under the theme &#8220;Exploring Opportunities in Agriculture Through Innovation and Collaboration&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Mustapha highlighted that achieving a 25 percent reduction in the regional food import bill by 2025 requires innovative approaches from farmers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the government is initiating projects to bolster food security, he stressed that collaboration between farmers, agro-processors, the private sector, and other stakeholders is essential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chairman of the GCCI\u2019s Agricultural Committee, Brian Edwards, echoed the sentiment, emphasizing the need for collaboration to develop a resilient market system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized that such a system should not only ensure food security but also enhance productivity, ultimately benefiting hardworking farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The symposium served as a platform for participants and presenters to engage in discussions on modernizing agricultural productivity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event was organized in collaboration with the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry, GBTI, NAREI, the Small Business Bureau, and other agricultural agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Reporting for NCN News, Josiah Williams<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha emphasized the importance of modernizing farming techniques and sharing best practices to achieve food security. He spoke during the opening of an agriculture symposium held under&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,366,362,350,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-economy","category-local-development","category-low-carbon-development","category-news","category-one-guyana"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13400","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=13400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13403,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13400\/revisions\/13403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}