{"id":226966,"date":"2026-03-15T13:40:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T11:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-pushes-climate-smart-farming-as-seed-co-showcases-new-crop-varieties\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T13:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T11:40:28","slug":"zimbabwe-pushes-climate-smart-farming-as-seed-co-showcases-new-crop-varieties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-pushes-climate-smart-farming-as-seed-co-showcases-new-crop-varieties\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Pushes Climate-Smart Farming As Seed Co Showcases New Crop Varieties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The government has reaffirmed its commitment to transforming agriculture through climate-resilient technologies, irrigation expansion and mechanisation as farmers, researchers and industry leaders gathered for the annual field day hosted by Seed Co Limited.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The event, held at the Rattray Arnold Research Station brought together government officials, regional seed experts and farmers from across the country to showcase new crop varieties and farming innovations aimed at strengthening food&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603130101.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 government has reaffirmed its commitment to transforming agriculture through climate-resilient technologies, irrigation expansion and mechanisation as farmers, researchers and industry leaders gathered for the annual field day hosted by Seed Co Limited. The event, held at the Rattray Arnold Research Station brought together government officials, regional seed experts and farmers from across the country [&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":[258,256,33899,13000,4309,257,16296,14322,14517,254,17575,4686,421],"class_list":["post-226966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-climatesmart","tag-crop","tag-farming","tag-news","tag-pushes","tag-seed","tag-showcases","tag-south-africa-today","tag-varieties","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226966","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=226966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226966\/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=226966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}