{"id":27488,"date":"2025-11-26T15:54:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=27488"},"modified":"2025-11-26T15:56:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:56:24","slug":"27488-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/27488-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Region 10 poised to expand Guyana&#8217;s food production"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>-to aid in reducing food import bill by 25 percent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Region 10 is being positioned to play a major role in expanding Guyana\u2019s food production and will increase the country&#8217;s share of the Regional market as CARICOM works to cut its food import bill by 25 percent. This is according to Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MoA-1024x655.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21952\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MoA-1024x655.png 1024w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MoA-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MoA-768x492.png 768w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MoA-1536x983.png 1536w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MoA-2048x1311.png 2048w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/MoA-155x99.png 155w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha (File photo) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Mustapha, while addressing a crowd in Linden, Region 10, posited that the Government plans to transform agriculture in that Region, an which will result in Region 10 playing a crucial role in Guyana\u2019s efforts to help the Caribbean achieve this 25 percent reduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/David-Agri-Ministry-Outreach-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister reminded residents and farmers that Region Ten has already received significant investment under the PPP\/C administration and is becoming an increasingly important part of Guyana\u2019s food production efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/David-Agri-Ministry-Outreach-2.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Agriculture Minister also confirmed that the Naibingi Association\u2019s request for a shade house has been approved and it will be delivered shortly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-to aid in reducing food import bill by 25 percent Region 10 is being positioned to play a major role in expanding Guyana\u2019s food production and will increase the country&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,365,366,363,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-economy","category-human-development","category-local-development","category-national-transformation","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27488","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=27488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27493,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27488\/revisions\/27493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}