{"id":192501,"date":"2025-02-28T18:28:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T16:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-current-good-rains-guarantee-better-harvests-this-season\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T18:28:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T16:28:43","slug":"zimbabwe-current-good-rains-guarantee-better-harvests-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-current-good-rains-guarantee-better-harvests-this-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Current Good Rains Guarantee Better Harvests This Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\"><em>The latest crop and livestock assessment by the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development has confirmed that most crops and pastures are in reasonable shape after the good rains we have been seeing for the last couple of months following a very slow start to the rainy season.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">No one is guaranteeing the final harvest yet, but already it looks considerably better than at the same stage last year, and so long as moderately reasonable rains continue, as they are likely to,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502280537.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>The latest crop and livestock assessment by the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development has confirmed that most crops and pastures are in reasonable shape after the good rains we have been seeing for the last couple of months following a very slow start to the rainy season. No one is guaranteeing [&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":[258,256,9184,6677,8742,14459,257,15767,8098,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-192501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-current","tag-good","tag-guarantee","tag-harvests","tag-news","tag-rains","tag-season","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192501","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=192501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192501\/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=192501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}