| Government is examining alternative ways for feeding cattle. A recent initiative of mixing rice straw with molasses and urea may be the answer to the growing cost of feed, according to the plans.On Sunday, Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud visited Nothingville Backlands, Hope, East Coast Demerara,Wholesale China Jerseys, to assess a project involving the use of remains of the rice straw. The project, according to the Minister in an interview with the Government Information Agency,Wholesale Soccer Jerseys, takes urgent significance in light of the El Niño situation now being experienced.Persaud noted that the exercise is in keeping with Government’s efforts to implement innovative methods by which cattle farmers will be provided with an adequate supply of feed for their livestock.The remains of rice straw will be used with molasses and urea to create a higher quality of feed for cattle.”This exercise is privately owned. Government now has to gather a very rudimentary type of technology and we are now looking to import another five of the machines used to bale the rice straws and this will be very useful, when we are dealing with either the El Niño dry weather conditions or during the flood conditions,” Minister Persaud said.Since there is a difficulty of accessing feed materials for cattle, there should be more intense husbandry and proper flock management by creating feed pens instead of having animals roaming.According to the official,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, in addition to this exercise benefiting livestock farmers, government has also embarked on a rigorous cultivation programme which would put less pressure on irrigation needs. This has begun in Regions Two and Four and is scheduled to commence in the others regions shortly.“This will allow us when some areas are harvesting, to divert resources and even the water we have to areas where we need and where the rice and other crops are at different stages. So this type of activity is important in our part of our world and in managing the El Niño season,” he said.Livestock farmers will be required to work through the Ministry’s National Dairy Development Programme (NDDP) to obtain access to the bales of feed.Regions Five and Six are scheduled next to benefit,Wholesale NHL Jerseys, and according to the Agriculture Minister,NFL Jerseys China, the technology is taking the livestock sector to another level, facilitating a more diversified and modernized agriculture sector.Director of the NDDP, Dwight Waldron, noted that since the commencement of the exercise, in excess of 15,000 pounds of rice straw have been acquired and will be distributed to farmers throughout the coast.He disclosed that the Ministry will also be embarking on a training programme for farmers countrywide with respect to the exercise. This will ensure that farmers are knowledgeable in the storing and processing methods of the rice straw as a feed substitute and also better equip them with basic knowledge in food security and proper husbandry.Twenty thousand gallons of molasses will be acquired during the coming week to be distributed throughout the coast to deal with the treatment of the straw.The training exercise will also be introduced to students of the Guyana School of Agriculture and farmers’ groups.Meanwhile,Wholesale Adidas Hockey Jerseys, Ramnarine Rupnarine, an Enmore cattle farmer who is the first beneficiary from the exercise lauded government’s quick and innovative response to their needs with regard to safeguarding their livestock.Recently, President Bharrat Jagdeo met with farmers of Essequibo where an announcement of an additional $258M, was made to bring support to the Ministry of Agriculture’s efforts to bring relief to farmers affected by El Niño. Among other interventions, the money will be spent to fund planting materials for cash crops and other farmers and portable water tanks for communities in desperate need. |
