{"id":26208,"date":"2025-02-08T21:38:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T21:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26208"},"modified":"2025-02-08T21:38:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T21:38:55","slug":"agriculture-minister-optimistic-about-achieving-25-reduction-in-food-imports-by-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/agriculture-minister-optimistic-about-achieving-25-reduction-in-food-imports-by-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Agriculture Minister Optimistic About Achieving 25% Reduction in Food Imports by 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Saskia Warrick | January 7, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite recent setbacks, Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha remains confident that Guyana and the Caribbean can still meet their goal of reducing food imports by 25% by the end of 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at his year-end press conference, Minister Mustapha acknowledged the region\u2019s progress, citing a 12% reduction in food imports following the most recent Heads of Government meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the goal was temporarily impacted by Hurricane Beryl, which caused significant damage to agricultural production in several Caribbean countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite these setbacks, Minister Mustapha emphasized the ongoing diversification of the agricultural sector and the collaborative efforts within the region to assist affected nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He expressed optimism that these strategies, along with a comprehensive action plan developed by a Ministerial taskforce, would allow the region to continue its progress and achieve its food security targets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The taskforce&#8217;s efforts focus on rebuilding and strengthening the region&#8217;s agricultural capabilities in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl\u2019s devastation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Mustapha\u2019s statements reflect a strong commitment to enhancing food security across the Caribbean, ensuring a more sustainable and resilient agricultural sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Saskia Warrick | January 7, 2025 Despite recent setbacks, Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha remains confident that Guyana and the Caribbean can still meet their goal of reducing food imports&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26208","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=26208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26209,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26208\/revisions\/26209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}