{"id":190093,"date":"2025-01-30T16:51:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T14:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-pre-planting-prices-help-farmers-build-confidence\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T16:51:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T14:51:01","slug":"zimbabwe-pre-planting-prices-help-farmers-build-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-pre-planting-prices-help-farmers-build-confidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Pre-Planting Prices Help Farmers Build Confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\">Obert Chifamba, Agri \u2014 Insight<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">THE Grain Marketing Board (GMB) recently announced the pre-planting producer price for maize and other grains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">The pre-planting price for maize and traditional grains is pegged at US$335 per tonne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Many stakeholders I talked to were satisfied with the figures though they seemed to share a common sentiment, the timing of the announcement was a bit belated, and therefore did not contribute much to their planning processes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Essentially, the announcement of a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501300238.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>Obert Chifamba, Agri \u2014 Insight THE Grain Marketing Board (GMB) recently announced the pre-planting producer price for maize and other grains. The pre-planting price for maize and traditional grains is pegged at US$335 per tonne. Many stakeholders I talked to were satisfied with the figures though they seemed to share a common sentiment, the timing [&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":[258,256,6935,11665,3030,257,50534,10246,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-190093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-build","tag-confidence","tag-farmers","tag-news","tag-preplanting","tag-prices","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190093","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=190093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190093\/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=190093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}