{"id":186458,"date":"2024-12-13T01:22:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T23:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-unpacking-reluctance-of-farmers-to-insure-crops\/"},"modified":"2024-12-13T01:22:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T23:22:53","slug":"zimbabwe-unpacking-reluctance-of-farmers-to-insure-crops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-unpacking-reluctance-of-farmers-to-insure-crops\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Unpacking Reluctance of Farmers to Insure Crops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\">Agri \u2014 Insight<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Today, I will delve into a topic that has, for years, formed the nucleus of protracted deliberations from all angles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Despite the ongoing discourse, it appears the subject has still remained unpalatable for the intended audiences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">I am talking here about crop insurance, whose relevance seems to be only acknowledged each time there is a disaster and once it is over, the matter also ebbs into the distant horizon to await a fresh emergency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">It seems few farmers appreciate the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412120526.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>Agri \u2014 Insight Today, I will delve into a topic that has, for years, formed the nucleus of protracted deliberations from all angles. Despite the ongoing discourse, it appears the subject has still remained unpalatable for the intended audiences. I am talking here about crop insurance, whose relevance seems to be only acknowledged each time [&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":[258,256,7856,3030,50167,257,15441,254,9082,4686,421],"class_list":["post-186458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crops","tag-farmers","tag-insure","tag-news","tag-reluctance","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unpacking","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186458","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=186458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186458\/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=186458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}