{"id":13492,"date":"2023-10-27T21:54:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T21:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=13492"},"modified":"2023-10-27T21:54:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T21:54:02","slug":"guyana-and-cuba-sign-mou-to-elevate-agriculture-focus-on-honey-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/guyana-and-cuba-sign-mou-to-elevate-agriculture-focus-on-honey-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana and Cuba Sign MOU to Elevate Agriculture, Focus on Honey Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Guyana has entered into a significant Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Cuba during the ongoing Agri Investment Forum and Expo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MOU aims to establish a collaborative framework between the agriculture ministries of both countries, encompassing various sectors within the agriculture industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These sectors include the cultivation of agricultural and vegetable products, livestock and animal products, beekeeping, and forestry, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Madanlall Ramraj, Director General of Guyana&#8217;s Ministry of Agriculture, emphasized the alignment of agricultural goals between the two nations, with particular attention to be devoted to beekeeping and honey production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cuban Ambassador to Guyana, Jorge Luis, expressed confidence that this partnership will further fortify bilateral relations and yield positive outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the projected growth of the global honey market, with an anticipated compound annual growth rate of 5.2 percent from 2022 to 2030, bolstering Guyana&#8217;s honey industry is a strategic priority for the government&#8217;s agricultural development agenda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concurrently, Cuba&#8217;s honey production sector has experienced notable expansion, achieving record exports of 8,500 metric tonnes in 2021, primarily to markets in Western Europe, Canada, Japan, the Bahamas, and Martinique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guyana has entered into a significant Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Cuba during the ongoing Agri Investment Forum and Expo. The MOU aims to establish a collaborative framework between the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[362,363,350,351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-low-carbon-development","category-national-transformation","category-news","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13492","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=13492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13494,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13492\/revisions\/13494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}