{"id":196783,"date":"2025-04-25T23:33:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T21:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-unveils-new-fund-to-support-value-chains\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T23:33:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T21:33:41","slug":"zimbabwe-govt-unveils-new-fund-to-support-value-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-unveils-new-fund-to-support-value-chains\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Govt Unveils New Fund to Support Value Chains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The Government has launched the Industrial Development Fund (IDF) to support the strengthening of domestic value chains and promote industrial growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The financing facility will also anchor import substitution measures and increase the export of value-added goods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">In a virtual presentation at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) International Business Conference held during the ongoing 65th edition of ZITF in Bulawayo on Wednesday, Finance, Economic Development, and Investment Promotion&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504250468.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 Government has launched the Industrial Development Fund (IDF) to support the strengthening of domestic value chains and promote industrial growth. The financing facility will also anchor import substitution measures and increase the export of value-added goods. In a virtual presentation at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) International Business Conference held during the ongoing [&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":[258,256,28497,5111,4357,257,254,6096,6777,4686,421],"class_list":["post-196783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chains","tag-fund","tag-govt","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support","tag-unveils","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196783","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=196783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196783\/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=196783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}