{"id":189416,"date":"2025-01-23T16:34:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T14:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-ama-rallies-livestock-sector\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T16:34:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T14:34:41","slug":"zimbabwe-ama-rallies-livestock-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-ama-rallies-livestock-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Ama Rallies Livestock Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">With the official launch of the Zimbabwe Livestock Growth Programme pencilled for the third quarter of the year, the Agricultural Marketing Authority (AMA) has urged stakeholders in the sector to pay the livestock development levy (LDL).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">ZLGP is targeting the fisheries, poultry, piggery, goats, beef and dairy value chains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The Government, under Statutory Instrument (SI) 129 of 2017 introduced the levy, as a critical tool to support sustainable growth and development in the industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The levy shall&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501230434.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>With the official launch of the Zimbabwe Livestock Growth Programme pencilled for the third quarter of the year, the Agricultural Marketing Authority (AMA) has urged stakeholders in the sector to pay the livestock development levy (LDL). ZLGP is targeting the fisheries, poultry, piggery, goats, beef and dairy value chains. The Government, under Statutory Instrument (SI) [&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":[258,256,15321,6328,257,11878,5991,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-189416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ama","tag-livestock","tag-news","tag-rallies","tag-sector","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189416","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=189416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189416\/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=189416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}