{"id":26986,"date":"2025-03-18T15:06:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T15:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26986"},"modified":"2025-03-18T15:06:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T15:06:02","slug":"linden-schools-benefit-from-narei-training-on-shade-house-management-and-pest-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/linden-schools-benefit-from-narei-training-on-shade-house-management-and-pest-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Linden Schools Benefit from NAREI Training on Shade House Management and Pest Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>February 10, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agriculture students and teachers from three secondary schools in Linden gained valuable knowledge on Shade House Management and Pest and Disease Identification during a training session on Monday, organized by the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The training aimed to better equip students with the skills needed for their CSEC exams while also teaching them essential practices for Climate Smart Agriculture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nehal Patterson, Training Officer at NAREI, explained that the primary focus was on understanding the principles of shade house production and identifying the crops most suitable for such environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the shade house management training, the session also covered pesticide safety. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jamaul Cumberbatch, Officer at the Pesticides and Toxic Chemicals Control Board, emphasized the importance of proper pesticide storage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students were provided with protective equipment, and a cabinet for storing pesticides was donated to ensure safe handling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kevin De Jonge, Headmaster of MC\u2019s Educational Institute, expressed appreciation for the training, noting its relevance as the school had recently built a shade house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He highlighted that the knowledge gained would significantly aid in the management of the shade house and improve students\u2019 performance in the agriculture program, particularly for the CSEC exams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other schools participating in the program were McKenzie High School and Linden Foundation Secondary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The training is expected to strengthen the agricultural curriculum and empower students to apply sustainable farming practices in their future careers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 10, 2025 Agriculture students and teachers from three secondary schools in Linden gained valuable knowledge on Shade House Management and Pest and Disease Identification during a training session on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-local-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26986","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=26986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26988,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26986\/revisions\/26988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}