{"id":31532,"date":"2026-08-21T20:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=31532"},"modified":"2026-08-21T20:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:17:13","slug":"reg-6-farmers-benefit-from-over-5000-citrus-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/reg-6-farmers-benefit-from-over-5000-citrus-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Reg. 6 farmers benefit from over 5000 citrus plants"},"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\">Farmers of East Bank Berbice today received a much-needed boost as Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha distributed over 5,000 citrus plants, along with fertilizer&nbsp;to farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The distribution exercise follows a commitment made to farmers who requested the planting materials during a recent community meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Farmers expressed gratitude for the support, saying it will help to boost their production and improve their agricultural output.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Minister Mustapha said the initiative forms part of a broader vision for the area, given its vast agricultural potential and fertile land space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<strong>This area once used to make a tremendous contribution to the country and to the region in terms of agricultural produce. And we want to ensure that we go back into that area because we have a lot of land here. The lands are fertile. We will continue to assist the farmers and we want you all to produce as much as possible,\u201d the minister said. &nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-by Kyler Rollins Farmers of East Bank Berbice today received a much-needed boost as Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha distributed over 5,000 citrus plants, along with fertilizer&nbsp;to farmers. The distribution&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[468,361,365,366,350],"tags":[488,370,591,412,405],"class_list":["post-31532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-business-and-economy","category-human-development","category-local-development","category-news","tag-488","tag-guyana","tag-ministry-of-agriculture","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31532","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=31532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31541,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31532\/revisions\/31541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}