{"id":27304,"date":"2025-10-28T20:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T20:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=27304"},"modified":"2025-11-03T14:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:32:56","slug":"moa-commissions-biotechnology-tissue-culture-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/moa-commissions-biotechnology-tissue-culture-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"MOA Commissions Biotechnology Tissue Culture Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8211; to help in achieving food security goals<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>At the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI), scientists, farmers, and officials gathered to mark the commissioning of the new tissue culture laboratory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The facility will be able to produce up to one million plantlets annually, a big jump from fifty thousand annually, which is a fiftyfold increase from the current output. These will include key crops like plantain, cassava, banana, and pineapple, all disease-free and ready for large-scale distribution to farmers across Guyana.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lab-shot-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lab-shot-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lab-shot-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lab-shot-1-118x157.jpg 118w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lab-shot-1-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lab-shot-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>One of the pieces of equipment at the new Laboratory<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Speaking at the commissioning ceremony, Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha highlighted that government is making a big push to increase the number of plantlets offered to farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/NaAsia-Biotechnology1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The project is part of Guyana&#8217;s wider effort to modernize agriculture using biotechnology and research driven solutions. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lab-shot-2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lab-shot-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lab-shot-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lab-shot-2-118x157.jpg 118w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lab-shot-2-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lab-shot-2.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A main operating room at the Laboratory<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Scientists say the new lab marks a major turning point for agricultural innovation in Guyana, especially as the world continues to grow. This was the view of Samantha Weever, a researcher attached to NAREI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; to help in achieving food security goals At the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI), scientists, farmers, and officials gathered to mark the commissioning of the new tissue&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27304","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27317,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27304\/revisions\/27317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}