{"id":232015,"date":"2026-05-01T03:57:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-government-sets-2026-winter-wheat-producer-price\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T03:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:57:22","slug":"zimbabwe-government-sets-2026-winter-wheat-producer-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-government-sets-2026-winter-wheat-producer-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Government Sets 2026 Winter Wheat Producer Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The Government has approved a producer price of US$524.56 per metric tonne for the 2026 winter wheat season, in a move aimed at encouraging farmers to increase production.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The Grain Marketing Board (GMB) said the figure would serve as the incentive planning and pre-planning price for wheat growers preparing for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">In a statement, GMB Chief Executive Officer Dr Edson Badarai said the pricing model had been agreed after wide consultations with key stakeholders in the agricultural&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604300166.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 approved a producer price of US$524.56 per metric tonne for the 2026 winter wheat season, in a move aimed at encouraging farmers to increase production. The Grain Marketing Board (GMB) said the figure would serve as the incentive planning and pre-planning price for wheat growers preparing for the upcoming season. In a [&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":[258,256,6427,257,8689,23900,7123,254,9904,22052,4686,421],"class_list":["post-232015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-government","tag-news","tag-price","tag-producer","tag-sets","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wheat","tag-winter","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232015","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=232015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232015\/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=232015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}