{"id":31371,"date":"2026-08-12T21:30:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=31371"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:30:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:30:59","slug":"president-ali-pledges-support-for-students-agriculture-entrepreneurship-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/president-ali-pledges-support-for-students-agriculture-entrepreneurship-initiatives\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ali pledges support for students&#8217; agriculture, entrepreneurship initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-by Celestine Chacon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Dr. Irfaan Ali has pledged to work with 49 schools\u00a0to create greater opportunities for students pursuing agriculture, agro-processing and entrepreneurship. He made the announcement on Tuesday during an engagement at State House with students\u00a0from the Bishop&#8217;s High School, JC Chandisingh Secondary and Canje Secondary.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The students participated in the Ministry of Education&#8217;s recently concluded\u00a0Agro-Processing and Value-Added Product Camp,\u00a0which focused on equipping young people with practical skills in agriculture,\u00a0food processing, and entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We will work with these 49 schools to see how, in the development bank, we can create opportunities,&#8221; the president said.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the initiatives being considered is engaging supermarkets to establish\u00a0dedicated shelves to showcase goods produced by Guyanese students. The students gave the President a glimpse into some of their products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Ali reaffirmed the government&#8217;s commitment to supporting the students\u00a0by ensuring they not only acquire practical knowledge,\u00a0but also have opportunities to transform their skills and products\u00a0into viable ventures.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-by Celestine Chacon President Dr. Irfaan Ali has pledged to work with 49 schools\u00a0to create greater opportunities for students pursuing agriculture, agro-processing and entrepreneurship. He made the announcement on Tuesday&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[468,361,350],"tags":[488,370,412,405],"class_list":["post-31371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-business-and-economy","category-news","tag-488","tag-guyana","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31371","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=31371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31373,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31371\/revisions\/31373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}