{"id":25844,"date":"2025-02-01T17:43:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T17:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=25844"},"modified":"2025-02-01T17:43:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T17:43:29","slug":"government-supports-agricultural-growth-in-annai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/government-supports-agricultural-growth-in-annai\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Supports Agricultural Growth in Annai"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Josiah Williams<\/em><br><em>December 17, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farmers and residents of Annai Village, Region 9, are set to receive continued agricultural support from the government following a ministerial outreach over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his visit to the North Rupununi village, Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha engaged with residents and outlined several upcoming initiatives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among their concerns was the need for planting materials, to which the minister pledged the delivery of 50,000 to 60,000 pounds of cassava within two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) will conduct training and soil testing in Annai to enhance agricultural productivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recognizing the critical role of women in agriculture, Minister Mustapha also committed resources to the community\u2019s Women\u2019s Agriculture Group. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes farine pans, baking pans, and other cooking equipment, as well as the construction of a poultry pen with 500 birds, to be facilitated by the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further infrastructural developments are also on the horizon, with a well and road works scheduled for next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the outreach, farmers received essential agricultural inputs, including ant bait, coconut and fruit tree seedlings, seeds, fertilizers, and gardening tools, all aimed at boosting production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Josiah WilliamsDecember 17, 2024 Farmers and residents of Annai Village, Region 9, are set to receive continued agricultural support from the government following a ministerial outreach over the weekend.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,363,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-national-transformation","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25844","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=25844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25845,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25844\/revisions\/25845"}],"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=25844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}