{"id":21804,"date":"2024-09-02T01:43:27","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T01:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=21804"},"modified":"2024-09-02T01:43:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T01:43:32","slug":"guyana-surpasses-rice-production-targets-with-positive-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/guyana-surpasses-rice-production-targets-with-positive-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana Surpasses Rice Production Targets with Positive Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>By Saskia Warrick<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guyana&#8217;s rice production is experiencing significant growth, with the half-year target already exceeded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country has seen a steady increase in rice output over recent years, with production rising from 610,000 metric tonnes in 2022 to 653,710 metric tonnes in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For 2024, the target was set at 710,030 metric tonnes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of now, 362,030 metric tonnes have already been produced, positioning the industry on track to meet its annual goal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha expressed optimism about the continued upward trend, highlighting the role of ongoing investments in sustaining this progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rice industry has also seen improvements in yield, with production per hectare increasing from 5.9 tonnes in 2020 to approximately 6.6 tonnes in 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, nine high-yielding rice varieties have been introduced in the past four years, further boosting productivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Modernization efforts, including the use of drone technology and Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping, are helping to enhance the industry\u2019s efficiency and sustainability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Saskia Warrick Guyana&#8217;s rice production is experiencing significant growth, with the half-year target already exceeded. The country has seen a steady increase in rice output over recent years, with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-economy","category-local-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21804","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=21804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21814,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21804\/revisions\/21814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}