{"id":197816,"date":"2025-05-10T11:58:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T09:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/ocp-africa-and-idc-sign-a-strategic-memorandum-of-understanding-to-advance-sustainable-agricultural-development-in-zambia\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T11:58:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T09:58:04","slug":"ocp-africa-and-idc-sign-a-strategic-memorandum-of-understanding-to-advance-sustainable-agricultural-development-in-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/ocp-africa-and-idc-sign-a-strategic-memorandum-of-understanding-to-advance-sustainable-agricultural-development-in-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"OCP Africa and IDC Sign a Strategic Memorandum of Understanding to Advance Sustainable Agricultural Development in Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\"><em>OCP Africa, a subsidiary of OCP Nutricrops, and the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) of Zambia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore new avenues for collaboration in advancing agricultural productivity and sustainability in Zambia and beyond.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"77\">The signing ceremony was held in Lusaka with the attendance of Hon. Reuben Mtolo Phiri, MP, Minister of Agriculture; His Excellency, Dr. Mohamed Kalakhi, the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco to Zambia; Mr. Siazongo Siakalenga,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505070364.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OCP Africa, a subsidiary of OCP Nutricrops, and the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) of Zambia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore new avenues for collaboration in advancing agricultural productivity and sustainability in Zambia and beyond. The signing ceremony was held in Lusaka with the attendance of Hon. Reuben Mtolo Phiri, MP, Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":197817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670229:83c47cd3f30c97f7a415d41f29981ef9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[11688,258,256,8375,5989,33953,5994,257,38049,4368,254,8007,6059,5995,4709,881],"class_list":["post-197816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-advance","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agricultural","tag-development","tag-idc","tag-memorandum","tag-news","tag-ocp","tag-sign","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategic","tag-sustainable","tag-understanding","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670229:83c47cd3f30c97f7a415d41f29981ef9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197816","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=197816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}