{"id":13456,"date":"2023-10-25T00:29:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T00:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=13456"},"modified":"2023-10-25T00:29:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T00:29:38","slug":"third-phase-of-wheat-cultivation-trials-to-begin-in-december-says-agriculture-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/third-phase-of-wheat-cultivation-trials-to-begin-in-december-says-agriculture-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Phase of Wheat Cultivation Trials to Begin in December, says Agriculture Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha has announced that the third phase of wheat cultivation trials is scheduled to kick off in December. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This initiative is a significant step towards exploring the feasibility of large-scale wheat cultivation in Guyana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While wheat cultivation traditionally thrives in warm conditions, Guyana experiences both wet and dry seasons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Mustapha emphasized that conducting successful trials is crucial before initiating full-scale cultivation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Promising results have been achieved in Region 8, and another trial will be conducted in Region 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Mustapha stressed the importance of international support in determining the optimal quality of wheat that can be produced locally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The introduction of wheat cultivation is expected to diversify the agriculture sector and potentially lead to a reduction in the cost of flour within the local market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha has announced that the third phase of wheat cultivation trials is scheduled to kick off in December. This initiative is a significant step towards exploring the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,362,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-development","category-low-carbon-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13456","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=13456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13458,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13456\/revisions\/13458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}