{"id":26181,"date":"2025-02-08T21:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T21:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26181"},"modified":"2025-02-08T21:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T21:11:08","slug":"agriculture-minister-confident-in-achieving-25-reduction-in-food-imports-by-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/agriculture-minister-confident-in-achieving-25-reduction-in-food-imports-by-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Agriculture Minister Confident in Achieving 25% Reduction in Food Imports by 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Saskia Warrick | January 6, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha remains optimistic that Guyana and the wider Caribbean will meet their goal of reducing food imports by 25% by the end of 2025, despite setbacks caused by Hurricane Beryl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his year-end press conference, Minister Mustapha highlighted the region&#8217;s progress, with a 12% reduction in food imports following the last Heads of Government meeting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Hurricane Beryl caused significant disruptions, impacting agricultural production across several Caribbean nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite these challenges, Minister Mustapha emphasized ongoing efforts to diversify the agricultural sector and collaborative projects aimed at assisting affected countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He expressed confidence that these strategies would keep the region on track to meet its food security targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister also revealed that a taskforce had developed a comprehensive action plan to rebuild the agricultural sector, which will be vital for achieving the goal of reduced food imports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Saskia Warrick | January 6, 2025 Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha remains optimistic that Guyana and the wider Caribbean will meet their goal of reducing food imports by 25% by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26181","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\/26181","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=26181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26182,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26181\/revisions\/26182"}],"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=26181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}