{"id":30788,"date":"2026-07-09T19:43:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T23:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=30788"},"modified":"2026-07-09T19:43:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T23:43:39","slug":"young-entrepreneurs-credit-president-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/young-entrepreneurs-credit-president-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"Young entrepreneurs credit President Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-for launching poultry investment initiative <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-by David Clarke<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A chance meeting with President Dr. Irfan Ali has sparked a major agricultural venture for a\u00a0group of young Guyanese entrepreneurs who are now building a large scale poultry\u00a0operation through the agri invest initiative.\u00a0The group is creating jobs and expanding Guyana&#8217;s poultry sector with ambitions of\u00a0becoming a leading regional producer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The group operating under the Agri-Invest initiative said the president&#8217;s vision and\u00a0support helped turn a simple conversation into a thriving agricultural venture that\u00a0is creating jobs, generating income and building long term wealth.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the entrepreneurs recalled that the idea was born after the president stopped to\u00a0speak with them while they were exercising along the Georgetown seawall and later\u00a0invited them to breakfast to discuss the opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;He stopped us, asked us what we&#8217;re doing.\u00a0So he said, hey, I&#8217;m going to invite you guys to breakfast.\u00a0And out of that came this initiative with young entrepreneurs,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tunnel house currently has the capacity to house approximately 43,000 broiler\u00a0chickens with production taking place on a six week cycle.\u00a0The farm, located at Moira Point, has already completed two production cycles and is\u00a0preparing to begin a third.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the group, the initiative is designed not only to strengthen Guyanese\u00a0poultry industry, but also to create generational wealth for the young investors and\u00a0their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking ahead, the entrepreneurs say they have ambitious plans to expand the operation\u00a0into one of the region&#8217;s premier poultry companies, comparing their long term vision\u00a0to international industry giants.\u00a0They also expressed gratitude to President Ali for believing in their potential, saying\u00a0his investment in young people has given them an opportunity to build a lasting legacy\u00a0while contributing to Guyana&#8217;s growing agricultural sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-for launching poultry investment initiative -by David Clarke A chance meeting with President Dr. Irfan Ali has sparked a major agricultural venture for a\u00a0group of young Guyanese entrepreneurs who are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[468,361,350],"tags":[488,573,370,412,405],"class_list":["post-30788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-business-and-economy","category-news","tag-488","tag-agriculture","tag-guyana","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30788","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=30788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30790,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30788\/revisions\/30790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}