{"id":186112,"date":"2024-12-08T01:13:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T23:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-extremely-hot-dry-conditions-jolt-farmers\/"},"modified":"2024-12-08T01:13:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T23:13:05","slug":"zimbabwe-extremely-hot-dry-conditions-jolt-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-extremely-hot-dry-conditions-jolt-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Extremely Hot, Dry Conditions Jolt Farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Peter Matika \u2014 Extremely hot and dry weather conditions being experienced across the country since last weekend have alarmed farmers who had begun planting, as health experts warn of heat strokes and dehydration linked to the heatwave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">According to the Meteorological Services Department (MSD), these conditions started on November 30 and are expected to continue until mid-next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The intense heat has already begun affecting farmers, raising concerns about the viability of their crops. Health&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412060382.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>Peter Matika \u2014 Extremely hot and dry weather conditions being experienced across the country since last weekend have alarmed farmers who had begun planting, as health experts warn of heat strokes and dehydration linked to the heatwave. According to the Meteorological Services Department (MSD), these conditions started on November 30 and are expected to continue [&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":[258,256,8288,11709,41495,3030,7478,30798,257,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-186112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-conditions","tag-dry","tag-extremely","tag-farmers","tag-hot","tag-jolt","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186112","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=186112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186112\/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=186112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}