{"id":215814,"date":"2025-12-05T22:11:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T20:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-gawu-congratulates-ghanaian-farmers-calls-for-establishment-of-ghana-agriculture-service\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T22:11:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T20:11:57","slug":"ghana-gawu-congratulates-ghanaian-farmers-calls-for-establishment-of-ghana-agriculture-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-gawu-congratulates-ghanaian-farmers-calls-for-establishment-of-ghana-agriculture-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: GAWU Congratulates Ghanaian Farmers, Calls for Establishment of Ghana Agriculture Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">The General Agricultural Workers&#8217; Union (GAWU), of the Trades Union Congress, Ghana<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">has congratulated Ghanaian farmers for their dedication and resilience who work under the scorching sun, through floods and droughts, often with limited tools, inadequate extension services, and little social protection to sustain our well-being and contribute to the country&#8217;s Gross Domestic Product.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Farmers day remains a day of national pride, a day we pause to honour our citizens whose efforts and hard work feed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512050454.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Agricultural Workers&#8217; Union (GAWU), of the Trades Union Congress, Ghana has congratulated Ghanaian farmers for their dedication and resilience who work under the scorching sun, through floods and droughts, often with limited tools, inadequate extension services, and little social protection to sustain our well-being and contribute to the country&#8217;s Gross Domestic Product. Farmers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":215815,"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":[4507],"tags":[258,256,1633,6137,6439,14048,3030,53050,4508,4509,9510,257,5188,254],"class_list":["post-215814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agriculture","tag-calls","tag-congratulates","tag-establishment","tag-farmers","tag-gawu","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanaian","tag-news","tag-service","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/215814","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=215814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}