{"id":27749,"date":"2026-01-08T20:18:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=27749"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:18:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:18:57","slug":"guyana-roraima-partnership-advancing-regional-food-hub-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/guyana-roraima-partnership-advancing-regional-food-hub-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana\/Roraima Partnership advancing regional food hub agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><strong>by NaAsia Bristol<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guyana is strengthening its role as a food producer through the Guyana\/State of Roraima Food Security Partnership.\u2028\u2028The initiative is building integrated agro-industrial hubs in Lethem, Berbice, and Essequibo, supported by export ports at Parika and Charity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali says the project is already boosting production, increasing investment, and attracting the attention of CARICOM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;The entire CARICOM region is now looking at Guyana as the production and distribution [hub] for food. And this is closely integrated with Roraima because whilst we are building out the mega farms, it&#8217;s important that we have a partnership with a state like Roraima that is huge in agriculture [with a] productive capacity at a global scale,&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> the head of state explained. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The partnership with Northern Brazil includes mega farms, processing facilities, cold storage, and new technology to expand production and improve distribution across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;We&#8217;re talking about the airport at Lethem so we can export directly to the Caribbean. Then we are looking at creating an agro-industrial hub in Lethem to bring raw produce to add value [and] do all the packaging for Caribbean and North American market,&#8221; <\/em><\/strong>he added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this integrated approach, Guyana aims to create jobs, strengthen food security, and cement its position as a central hub for agriculture and exports in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by NaAsia Bristol Guyana is strengthening its role as a food producer through the Guyana\/State of Roraima Food Security Partnership.\u2028\u2028The initiative is building integrated agro-industrial hubs in Lethem, Berbice, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[468,350],"tags":[488,412,405],"class_list":["post-27749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-news","tag-488","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27749","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=27749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27751,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27749\/revisions\/27751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}