{"id":216726,"date":"2025-12-15T10:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-arda-delivers-over-60000-tonnes-of-grain-to-boost-national-reserves\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T10:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:12:13","slug":"zimbabwe-arda-delivers-over-60000-tonnes-of-grain-to-boost-national-reserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-arda-delivers-over-60000-tonnes-of-grain-to-boost-national-reserves\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: ARDA Delivers Over 60,000 Tonnes of Grain to Boost National Reserves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (ARDA) has reinforced its role in safeguarding Zimbabwe&#8217;s food security after delivering 60,347 tonnes of grain to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) for the country&#8217;s Strategic Grain Reserve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">This delivery comes on the back of a bumper national wheat harvest estimated at 640,195 tonnes&#8211;one of the strongest outputs recorded in recent years. The exceptional performance has been attributed to favourable rains and intensified government-backed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512110034.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 Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (ARDA) has reinforced its role in safeguarding Zimbabwe&#8217;s food security after delivering 60,347 tonnes of grain to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) for the country&#8217;s Strategic Grain Reserve. This delivery comes on the back of a bumper national wheat harvest estimated at 640,195 tonnes&#8211;one of the strongest outputs recorded [&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":[258,256,25759,6557,5853,10765,6687,257,11008,254,12988,4686,421],"class_list":["post-216726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arda","tag-boost","tag-delivers","tag-grain","tag-national","tag-news","tag-reserves","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tonnes","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216726","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=216726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216726\/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=216726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}