{"id":195964,"date":"2025-04-13T05:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T03:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-partners-afdb-others-to-kick-off-538-million-agro-industrial-processing-zone\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T05:39:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T03:39:00","slug":"nigeria-partners-afdb-others-to-kick-off-538-million-agro-industrial-processing-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-partners-afdb-others-to-kick-off-538-million-agro-industrial-processing-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Partners AfDB, Others to Kick-Off $538 Million Agro-Industrial Processing Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The initiative is part of a broader strategy to address food insecurity and enhance agricultural practices within the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">In collaboration with the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afdb.org\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">African Development Bank<\/a><\/strong> (AfDB), the federal government has initiated the inaugural phase of the Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZ) Project in Kaduna after about four years since it was first conceived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">This initiative is part of a broader strategy to address food insecurity and enhance agricultural practices within the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">In his&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504110230.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The initiative is part of a broader strategy to address food insecurity and enhance agricultural practices within the nation. In collaboration with the African Development Bank (AfDB), the federal government has initiated the inaugural phase of the Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZ) Project in Kaduna after about four years since it was first conceived. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":195965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[9155,258,256,41294,14764,5118,257,4687,393,5189,16786,254,7073],"class_list":["post-195964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-afdb","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agroindustrial","tag-kickoff","tag-million","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-partners","tag-processing","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zone"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/195964","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}