{"id":181455,"date":"2024-09-28T11:42:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T09:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-cottco-urges-farmers-to-prepare-for-planting-season-warns-against-misuse-of-inputs\/"},"modified":"2024-09-28T11:42:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T09:42:07","slug":"zimbabwe-cottco-urges-farmers-to-prepare-for-planting-season-warns-against-misuse-of-inputs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-cottco-urges-farmers-to-prepare-for-planting-season-warns-against-misuse-of-inputs\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Cottco Urges Farmers to Prepare for Planting Season, Warns Against Misuse of Inputs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco) is calling on farmers to prepare their land in anticipation of the early rains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Cottco CEO, Rockie Mutenha, urged cotton growers to take swift action to maximize their yield and ensure a productive farming season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">&#8220;We are almost in the month of October, we understand the rains will be coming fairly soon and we are encouraging farmers to do the necessary land preparation and take advantage of the early rains to plant cotton so that they get the yield,&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409270310.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 Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco) is calling on farmers to prepare their land in anticipation of the early rains. Cottco CEO, Rockie Mutenha, urged cotton growers to take swift action to maximize their yield and ensure a productive farming season. &#8220;We are almost in the month of October, we understand the rains will be [&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":[258,256,36717,3030,7475,23303,257,10688,6805,8098,254,6810,6853,4686,421],"class_list":["post-181455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cottco","tag-farmers","tag-inputs","tag-misuse","tag-news","tag-planting","tag-prepare","tag-season","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges","tag-warns","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181455","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=181455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181455\/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=181455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}