{"id":181654,"date":"2024-10-01T23:51:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T21:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-summer-cropping-preps-in-full-swing\/"},"modified":"2024-10-01T23:51:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T21:51:11","slug":"zimbabwe-summer-cropping-preps-in-full-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-summer-cropping-preps-in-full-swing\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Summer Cropping Preps in Full Swing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Preparations for the new summer cropping season are in full swing, with farmers told not to pay transport fees for inputs distributed under Presidential schemes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">President Mnangagwa is expected in Buhera on October 16 to launch the Presidential Agricultural Climate Proofing Input Support Programme, Pfumvudza\/Intwasa, for the summer cropping season, but distribution of inputs under some schemes is already underway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development Minister Dr Anxious&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410010558.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>Preparations for the new summer cropping season are in full swing, with farmers told not to pay transport fees for inputs distributed under Presidential schemes. President Mnangagwa is expected in Buhera on October 16 to launch the Presidential Agricultural Climate Proofing Input Support Programme, Pfumvudza\/Intwasa, for the summer cropping season, but distribution of inputs under [&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":[258,256,49655,10170,257,11793,254,22347,27691,4686,421],"class_list":["post-181654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cropping","tag-full","tag-news","tag-preps","tag-south-africa-today","tag-summer","tag-swing","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181654","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=181654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181654\/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=181654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}