{"id":226327,"date":"2026-03-08T01:23:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-agricultural-research-key-to-tackling-climate-and-yield-challenges-jiri\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T01:23:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:23:39","slug":"zimbabwe-agricultural-research-key-to-tackling-climate-and-yield-challenges-jiri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-agricultural-research-key-to-tackling-climate-and-yield-challenges-jiri\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Agricultural Research Key to Tackling Climate and Yield Challenges &#8211; Jiri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Agricultural research remains central to Zimbabwe&#8217;s efforts to strengthen food production and address challenges such as climate change, soil infertility and crop diseases, a senior government official has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Speaking during a recent tour of the Agriculture Research Trust in Harare, Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Development Permanent Secretary, Professor Obert Jiri said research-driven solutions were essential for the country&#8217;s agricultural development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">&#8220;Research efforts are sustained and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603060520.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>Agricultural research remains central to Zimbabwe&#8217;s efforts to strengthen food production and address challenges such as climate change, soil infertility and crop diseases, a senior government official has said. Speaking during a recent tour of the Agriculture Research Trust in Harare, Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Development Permanent Secretary, Professor Obert Jiri said research-driven solutions [&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":[258,256,8375,6977,6239,53843,7274,257,6712,254,6210,15959,4686,421],"class_list":["post-226327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agricultural","tag-challenges","tag-climate","tag-jiri","tag-key","tag-news","tag-research","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tackling","tag-yield","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226327","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=226327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226327\/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=226327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}