{"id":25819,"date":"2025-01-27T16:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T16:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=25819"},"modified":"2025-01-27T16:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T16:34:12","slug":"massara-community-to-receive-5-million-grant-to-boost-cassava-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/massara-community-to-receive-5-million-grant-to-boost-cassava-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Massara Community to Receive $5 Million Grant to Boost Cassava Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Saskia Warrick<\/em><br><em>December 16, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Agriculture has announced a $5 million grant to enhance cassava production in Massara, Region Nine, as part of efforts to support agricultural development and community growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Agriculture, Hon. Zulfikar Mustapha, made the announcement during a two-day outreach visit to the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cassava, a staple crop in the area, faces several challenges, and the grant aims to address these issues by improving production techniques. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) will assist the community in adopting better farming methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to this, the Ministry will provide fencing materials for a pilot project, as well as 10 sheep from the Guyana Livestock Development Authority to support agricultural diversification. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A grass-cutting machine will also be handed over to the Village Council to help maintain community pastures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This initiative aims to improve the livelihoods of Massara&#8217;s residents while boosting agricultural output in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Saskia WarrickDecember 16, 2024 The Ministry of Agriculture has announced a $5 million grant to enhance cassava production in Massara, Region Nine, as part of efforts to support agricultural&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[363,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-transformation","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25819","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=25819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25820,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25819\/revisions\/25820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}