{"id":181352,"date":"2024-09-26T22:07:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T20:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-cane-farmers-in-nyando-propose-to-delay-quality-based-payment-system\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T22:07:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T20:07:15","slug":"kenya-cane-farmers-in-nyando-propose-to-delay-quality-based-payment-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-cane-farmers-in-nyando-propose-to-delay-quality-based-payment-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Cane Farmers in Nyando Propose to Delay Quality-Based Payment System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Kisumu \u2014 <em>Sugarcane farmers within the Nyando Sugarbelt have proposed a two-year delay before the roll out of the Quality-Based Cane Payment System (QBCPS).<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The farmers converged in Kisumu on Thursday during a public participation on the QBCPS Regulations 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The farmers however expressed optimism for the new method of payments for their cane based on the sucrose content.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Atyang Atyang, a farmer in Muhoroni, said the regulations will cushion farmers from exploitation by millers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">He said the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409260480.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kisumu \u2014 Sugarcane farmers within the Nyando Sugarbelt have proposed a two-year delay before the roll out of the Quality-Based Cane Payment System (QBCPS). The farmers converged in Kisumu on Thursday during a public participation on the QBCPS Regulations 2023. The farmers however expressed optimism for the new method of payments for their cane based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":181353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,15553,8036,3030,4688,430,257,49620,10122,23098,49621,254,7232],"class_list":["post-181352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cane","tag-delay","tag-farmers","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-nyando","tag-payment","tag-propose","tag-qualitybased","tag-south-africa-today","tag-system"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181352","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}