{"id":22088,"date":"2024-09-03T19:14:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T19:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=22088"},"modified":"2024-09-03T19:14:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T19:14:43","slug":"black-belly-sheep-project-to-benefit-vulnerable-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/black-belly-sheep-project-to-benefit-vulnerable-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Belly Sheep Project to Benefit Vulnerable Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>The Black Belly Sheep initiative, launched in 2023 by President Irfaan Ali, will soon expand its benefits to individuals with disabilities across Guyana. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project, aimed at providing sustainable income opportunities for Guyanese, is progressing rapidly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha revealed that over 20 farmers have already benefited from the initiative, and more are set to follow, including vulnerable groups. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the arrival of another flock from Barbados is awaited, facilities are being constructed in the Ellis, Mahaica Mahaicony Abary area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A breeding program combining Black Belly sheep with local breeds is already underway, showing promising results with over 300 local births recorded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farmers are expected to return 10 percent of the purebred sheep within three lambing periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initiative highlights the government\u2019s commitment to empowering various sectors of society through innovative agricultural programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Belly Sheep initiative, launched in 2023 by President Irfaan Ali, will soon expand its benefits to individuals with disabilities across Guyana. This project, aimed at providing sustainable income&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22088","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=22088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22089,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22088\/revisions\/22089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}