{"id":175886,"date":"2024-07-04T19:52:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T17:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-presidential-poultry-scheme-records-31-percent-growth\/"},"modified":"2024-07-04T19:52:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T17:52:08","slug":"zimbabwe-presidential-poultry-scheme-records-31-percent-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-presidential-poultry-scheme-records-31-percent-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Presidential Poultry Scheme Records 31 Percent Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Presidential Poultry Scheme continues to expand with 1 542 910 indigenous chicks distributed this year to mark a 31 percent rise from the 1 176 453 recorded in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">This comes as Government is seized with boosting food and nutrition security at the household level countrywide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Statistics released by the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development reveal that since the inception of the Scheme in 2022, at least 1, 5 million chicks have been distributed across the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407040440.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidential Poultry Scheme continues to expand with 1 542 910 indigenous chicks distributed this year to mark a 31 percent rise from the 1 176 453 recorded in 2023. This comes as Government is seized with boosting food and nutrition security at the household level countrywide. Statistics released by the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,6641,257,6720,10273,6438,6850,11079,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-175886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-growth","tag-news","tag-percent","tag-poultry","tag-presidential","tag-records","tag-scheme","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}