{"id":27514,"date":"2025-11-28T13:33:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T13:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=27514"},"modified":"2025-11-28T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T13:34:00","slug":"pwd-state-of-the-art-farming-facility-to-be-established-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/pwd-state-of-the-art-farming-facility-to-be-established-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"PWD state-of-the-art farming facility to be established soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>As part of the national push to ensure that the Agriculture sector is more accessible and inclusive, a state-of-the-art farming facility designed for Persons Living with Disabilities will soon be established.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is according to Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha, who made the disclosure during a recent visit to Karaudarnau, Deep South Rupununi.<\/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\/05\/MOA-1024x655.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MOA-1024x655.png 1024w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MOA-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MOA-768x492.png 768w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MOA-1536x983.png 1536w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MOA-2048x1311.png 2048w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MOA-155x99.png 155w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha (Photo: Ministry of Agriculture \u2013 Guyana via Facebook) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He posited that this new facility, which is currently under development through the Guyana School of Agriculture (GSA), is unlike anything Guyana has ever had before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister explained that it will be a modern, fully outfitted farm dedicated to providing Persons Living with Disabilities with opportunities to earn a livelihood in agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized that the facility is not a welfare initiative, but a long-term empowerment strategy, noting that that there are many Persons Living with Disabilities who are skilled but unable to find meaningful work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project will ensure Persons Living with Disabilities are not left behind as the agriculture sector modernizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The farm will operate entirely with disability-friendly infrastructure and tools, creating a safe and empowering environment where individuals living with disabilities can produce crops, acquire skills, and build independent income streams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the national push to ensure that the Agriculture sector is more accessible and inclusive, a state-of-the-art farming facility designed for Persons Living with Disabilities will soon be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,366,363,350,367,351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-local-development","category-national-transformation","category-news","category-one-guyana","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27514","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=27514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27515,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27514\/revisions\/27515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}