{"id":188607,"date":"2025-01-14T15:53:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T13:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-agriculture-is-boring-i-will-make-it-cool-for-the-youth-cs-nominee-kagwe\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T15:53:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T13:53:38","slug":"kenya-agriculture-is-boring-i-will-make-it-cool-for-the-youth-cs-nominee-kagwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-agriculture-is-boring-i-will-make-it-cool-for-the-youth-cs-nominee-kagwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Agriculture Is Boring, I Will Make It Cool for the Youth &#8211; CS Nominee Kagwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Agriculture Cabinet Secretary nominee Mutahi Kagwe has emphasized the need to centralize the agriculture sector to maximize farmers&#8217; profits and attract the younger generation to invest in it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Appearing before the National Assembly Committee on Appointments, Kagwe highlighted the sector&#8217;s declining fortunes, coupled with outdated operational methods, as key factors discouraging youth from embracing agriculture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">&#8220;Agriculture, for the youth, must be exciting. As it stands, it&#8217;s too&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501140267.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>Nairobi \u2014 Agriculture Cabinet Secretary nominee Mutahi Kagwe has emphasized the need to centralize the agriculture sector to maximize farmers&#8217; profits and attract the younger generation to invest in it. Appearing before the National Assembly Committee on Appointments, Kagwe highlighted the sector&#8217;s declining fortunes, coupled with outdated operational methods, as key factors discouraging youth from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":188608,"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":[258,256,1633,50395,11691,37740,4688,430,257,18477,254,6276],"class_list":["post-188607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agriculture","tag-boring","tag-cool","tag-kagwe","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-nominee","tag-south-africa-today","tag-youth"],"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\/188607","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=188607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}