{"id":32584,"date":"2026-10-16T18:02:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T22:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=32584"},"modified":"2026-10-16T18:02:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T22:02:59","slug":"reg-6-steps-up-efforts-to-maintain-agricultural-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/reg-6-steps-up-efforts-to-maintain-agricultural-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Reg. 6 steps up efforts to maintain agricultural production\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;&nbsp;<strong>A<\/strong><strong>mid El Nino<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-by Kyler Rollins <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amid ongoing El Nino conditions\u00a0the\u00a0Region\u00a0Six\u00a0RDC has assured that\u00a0measures are being implemented\u00a0to safeguard agricultural production and\u00a0minimize\u00a0the impact of\u00a0the\u00a0dry weather on farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<strong>We have been engaging with farmers on a\u00a0day to day\u00a0basis. Request that are made from farmers we are trying our\u00a0utmost best\u00a0to support them because we want to support agriculture. We want to support the growth of agriculture in the region. And like I said, we are doing everything so that even though we are faced with an unusual situation right now, we don\u2019t want agriculture to stand\u00a0still\u00a0and we don\u2019t want production to decrease,\u201d <\/strong>RDC Chairman, Junior Basant, said during an interview with NCN News. <br><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-77.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-77.png 960w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-77-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-77-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Irrigation in Black Bush Polder <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-77.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-77.png 960w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-77-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-77-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Basant said that during the current harvesting period, farmers are less reliant on water.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, he noted that systems are in place to ensure an adequate water supply for cultivation as the dry conditions persist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<strong>After the harvesting period when they\u2019re ready to revamp their lands, we have a system in place to have adequate water available for them where we\u2019re taking water from the Canje Creek area\u00a0and supplying the backlands and that will in turn supply all of the canals so that there is adequate water to all farmers throughout the region<\/strong>,\u201d he said. <br>The chairman added that irrigation pumps are operational and supplying water to farmers based on their requests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He noted that the situation is being closely monitored, with the RDC working with farmers, the Ministry of Agriculture and its agencies to ensure adequate water supplies for agricultural activities.<br><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;&nbsp;Amid El Nino -by Kyler Rollins Amid ongoing El Nino conditions\u00a0the\u00a0Region\u00a0Six\u00a0RDC has assured that\u00a0measures are being implemented\u00a0to safeguard agricultural production and\u00a0minimize\u00a0the impact of\u00a0the\u00a0dry weather on farmers. \u201cWe have been engaging&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[468,361,350],"tags":[488,1210,1320,591,448,412,405],"class_list":["post-32584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-business-and-economy","category-news","tag-488","tag-el-nino","tag-irrigation","tag-ministry-of-agriculture","tag-ncn","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32584","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=32584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32587,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32584\/revisions\/32587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}