{"id":28204,"date":"2026-01-29T09:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T13:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=28204"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T13:32:14","slug":"onverwagt-abattoir-to-be-commissioned-in-two-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/onverwagt-abattoir-to-be-commissioned-in-two-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Onverwagt\u00a0abattoir to be commissioned in two weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>&#8211;&nbsp;<strong>Minister Mustapha<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha on Saturday visited the\u00a0state-of-the-art\u00a0abattoir in Onverwagt, Region 5,\u00a0ahead of its commissioning in two weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The abattoir is currently in its testing phase and\u00a0will have the capacity to slaughter 30 to 35 animals per day, with plans to expand to\u00a0accommodate 100 animals per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<strong>We have butchers\u00a0with large numbers of animals who will be slaughtering here and same time we have these small butchers. We will be taking a very nominal fee from them, a small fee\u00a0\u00a0from the butchers<\/strong>,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;state-of-the-art&nbsp;abattoir&nbsp;forms part of&nbsp;government\u2019s&nbsp;plan to expand operations&nbsp;and position Guyana for beef exports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will be managed by the Guyana Livestock Development Authority, GLDA, and is\u00a0equipped with modern\u00a0machinery to ensure a fully mechanised\u00a0and efficient\u00a0process.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<strong>So, I\u2019m hoping that\u00a0in the next two weeks they will do rapid tests and if any teething problems exist we can resolve all those problems and in two weeks time the president will commission this and it will<\/strong> <strong>open to the public<\/strong>,&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Region 5\u00a0has been\u00a0deemed the livestock capital of the\u00a0country\u00a0and with the introduction of new facilities like these, livestock farmers are expected to benefit meaningfully as efforts continue to expand the sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;&nbsp;Minister Mustapha Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha on Saturday visited the\u00a0state-of-the-art\u00a0abattoir in Onverwagt, Region 5,\u00a0ahead of its commissioning in two weeks.\u00a0 The abattoir is currently in its testing phase and\u00a0will&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[468,350],"tags":[488,370,412,405,589,494],"class_list":["post-28204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-news","tag-488","tag-guyana","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news","tag-onverwagt","tag-region-5"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28204","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=28204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28206,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28204\/revisions\/28206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}