{"id":23474,"date":"2024-10-08T15:20:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T15:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=23474"},"modified":"2024-10-08T15:20:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T15:20:46","slug":"agriculture-minister-announces-audit-into-mma-ada-lease-issuance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/agriculture-minister-announces-audit-into-mma-ada-lease-issuance\/","title":{"rendered":"Agriculture Minister Announces Audit into MMA\/ADA Lease Issuance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Saskia Warrick<\/em><br><em>September 27, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha announced that a comprehensive investigation and audit will be conducted regarding the issuance of leases in the Mahaica-Mahaicony-Abary Agriculture Development Authority (MMA\/ADA) scheme. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This decision came during a meeting with farmers involved in the scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Agriculture issues leases to farmers to promote agricultural production and development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to the granting of these lands, recommendations are made by the Land Sub-Committee to the MMA\/ADA Board of Directors before they are sent to the Ministry for final approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent months have seen allegations of misconduct between farmers and agriculture officials concerning access to lease lands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Mustapha emphasized the importance of the audit, noting that some leaseholders are currently residing overseas and are subletting their lands to local farmers at inflated prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While farmers are charged approximately GYD 3,500 for land rental and drainage and irrigation (D&amp;I) fees, it has been reported that these overseas leaseholders are charging local farmers as much as GYD 30,000 for one acre of land. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Mustapha firmly stated that this practice cannot continue, as it undermines the benefits that should be available to local farmers and consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Saskia WarrickSeptember 27, 2024 Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha announced that a comprehensive investigation and audit will be conducted regarding the issuance of leases in the Mahaica-Mahaicony-Abary Agriculture Development Authority&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,362,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23474","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\/23474","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=23474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23485,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23474\/revisions\/23485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}