{"id":30805,"date":"2026-07-10T23:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=30805"},"modified":"2026-07-10T23:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:04:18","slug":"800-million-in-relief-disbursed-to-rice-farmers-in-region-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/800-million-in-relief-disbursed-to-rice-farmers-in-region-6\/","title":{"rendered":"$800 million in relief disbursed to rice farmers in Region 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-by Kyler Rollins<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A total of 1,484 rice farmers in Region 6 today received a\u00a0much-needed boost, with over $800 million in relief checks disbursed.\u00a0The initiative aims to help offset the challenges and rising costs associated with rice cultivation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The initiative fulfills a commitment made by President Dr. Irfan Ali when he met with\u00a0rice farmers in April.\u00a0The payments cover 74,314 acres cultivated during the last crop, with all beneficiaries\u00a0undergoing a thorough verification process before receiving the checks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NCN News spoke with several farmers who praised the government for the financial assistance,\u00a0noting that the support will help ease the burden of production costs.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One farmer shared that he would be using the money to purchase fertiliser, saying, &#8220;I plant about 60 acres of farming, and with the government&#8217;s help, it&#8217;s very great,&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eston Ault, another rice farmer, said, &#8220;This check will benefit us by starting the crop on expenses, so I&#8217;m grateful for the\u00a0President to help us in this.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha reaffirmed the government&#8217;s commitment\u00a0to supporting rice farmers, especially during challenging periods when the effects of climate\u00a0change continue to impact the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;Climate change is real in this part of the world.\u00a0We used to have five and six inches of rainfall in a two-month period.\u00a0Now you&#8217;re having that within an hour or two hours.That is the thing that we have to now combat, and that is what the government is responding to,&#8221; <\/strong>he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-by Kyler Rollins A total of 1,484 rice farmers in Region 6 today received a\u00a0much-needed boost, with over $800 million in relief checks disbursed.\u00a0The initiative aims to help offset the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[468,350],"tags":[488,573,370,412,405,1134],"class_list":["post-30805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-news","tag-488","tag-agriculture","tag-guyana","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news","tag-rice-farmer"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30805","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=30805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30807,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30805\/revisions\/30807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}