{"id":2684,"date":"2014-06-15T13:39:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T06:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2684"},"modified":"2014-06-15T13:39:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T06:39:28","slug":"mozambique-welcomes-zambian-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique-welcomes-zambian-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique welcomes Zambian farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mozambican High Commissioner to Zambia Jeronimo Chivavi said in Ndola that his government would like to take advantage of Zambians\u2019 business spirit and allocate land to Zambians who are interested.<\/p>\n<p>The High Commissioner, who was speaking when he paid a courtesy call on Copperbelt Minister Mwenya Musenge on Friday, said Mozambique had enough land to offer to Zambian farmers.<br \/>\nMr Chivavi said his country welcomes Zambians in the Mozambican agricultural sector, particularly in the production of rice, soya beans and sesame.<br \/>\nHe also said Chokwe, a small town located about 230 kilometres to the north of the Mozambican capital, Maputo, has interest of twinning with the city of Ndola.<br \/>\n\u201cThe mayor of that city is already willing and that is why I\u2019m here to ensure that this partnership works out because it will be a great achievement,\u201d Mr Chivavi said.<br \/>\nAnd speaking when he received the Mozambican envoy, Mr Musenge said agriculture is a solution to high levels of unemployment.<br \/>\nHe said the Zambian population has grown, leading to high unemployment and poverty levels.<br \/>\nThe minister said what makes it worse is that people do not want to go back to the land because they feel that they can only find employment in the cities&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"http:\/\/www.daily-mail.co.zm\/index.php\/local-news\/item\/4895-mozambique-eyes-zambian-farmers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Africa News Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozambican High Commissioner to Zambia Jeronimo Chivavi said in Ndola that his government would like to take advantage of Zambians\u2019 business spirit and allocate land to Zambians who are interested. The High Commissioner, who was speaking when he paid a courtesy call on Copperbelt Minister Mwenya Musenge on Friday, said Mozambique had enough land to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654,298,825],"tags":[258,256,828,826,831,4704,682,827,257,254,4693,830,4709,829],"class_list":["post-2684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","category-southern-africa","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allocate-land-to-zambians","tag-jeronimo-chivavi","tag-mozambican-agricultural-sector","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-ndola","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-welcomes-zambians-in-the-mozambican-agricultural-sector","tag-zambia","tag-zambian-farmers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/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=2684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}