{"id":199064,"date":"2025-05-29T13:22:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T11:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-big-u-s-funded-chicken-project-shuts-down-in-lesotho\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T13:22:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T11:22:50","slug":"lesotho-big-u-s-funded-chicken-project-shuts-down-in-lesotho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-big-u-s-funded-chicken-project-shuts-down-in-lesotho\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Big U.S.-Funded Chicken Project Shuts Down in Lesotho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\"><em> Five-year plan was to up meat production by 40% <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A R500-million project to boost chicken farming in Lesotho has been canned by the United States Department of Agriculture.<\/li>\n<li>The Sustainable Transformation of Enterprises in the Poultry Sector (STEPS) project, launched in 2023, aimed to grow 28,000 poultry enterprises in Lesotho and boost meat production by 40% and egg production by 30% by 2028.<\/li>\n<li>Lesotho&#8217;s Rural Self-Help Development Association, a partner in the project, said the grant had been&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505290089.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five-year plan was to up meat production by 40% A R500-million project to boost chicken farming in Lesotho has been canned by the United States Department of Agriculture. The Sustainable Transformation of Enterprises in the Poultry Sector (STEPS) project, launched in 2023, aimed to grow 28,000 poultry enterprises in Lesotho and boost meat production by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":199065,"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\/00670469:6235c7bcf5c2e1c8782a1bafc3f9ab31:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,8559,16355,4717,1407,257,6504,5223,254,51471],"class_list":["post-199064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-big","tag-chicken","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-project","tag-shuts","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s-funded"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670469:6235c7bcf5c2e1c8782a1bafc3f9ab31:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199064","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=199064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}