{"id":712,"date":"2019-03-07T13:49:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T13:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/?p=712"},"modified":"2019-03-07T13:58:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T13:58:50","slug":"mafba-secures-one-of-the-top-places-at-agrifest-2019-in-the-usvi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/2019\/03\/07\/mafba-secures-one-of-the-top-places-at-agrifest-2019-in-the-usvi\/","title":{"rendered":"MAFBA secures one of the top places at AgriFest 2019 in the USVI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-716\" src=\"http:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/agriculture-in-the-BVI-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/agriculture-in-the-BVI-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/agriculture-in-the-BVI-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/agriculture-in-the-BVI-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/agriculture-in-the-BVI.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-717\" src=\"http:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/agri-fest-2019-3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/agri-fest-2019-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/agri-fest-2019-3-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/agri-fest-2019-3.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>6th March 2019<\/p>\n<p>MAFBA secures one of the top places at AgriFest 2019 in the USVI<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to the team from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Barbuda Affairs (MAFBA) for capturing Second Place from among the overseas participants in the Produce Category at AgriFest, which was recently held in St. Croix, USVI.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations are also in order in for neighbouring St.Kitts\/Nevis which captured First Place.<\/p>\n<p>The event, which is known to be the biggest of its kind in the Caribbean, attracted farmers from all over the region.<\/p>\n<p>The Delegation from Antigua and Barbuda comprised Alvis Abbott &#8211; Agro Processor, Dorothy Pelle &#8211; Agro Processor, Katlin Dew \u2013 Farmer, Fitzmorgon Greenaway \u2013 Farmer, Ryson Joseph &#8211; Manager ADC, Brent Georges \u2013 MAFBA and Marcelle Freeland \u2013 MAFBA.<\/p>\n<p>Twini Payne represented Twinstod Enterprises.<\/p>\n<p>AgriFest was held under the theme, &#8220;VI Agriculture- Still Growing in 2019.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6th March 2019 MAFBA secures one of the top places at AgriFest 2019 in the USVI Congrats to the team from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Barbuda Affairs (MAFBA) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-notices"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}