{"id":3044,"date":"2014-06-23T09:37:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T02:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2014-06-23T09:37:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T02:37:21","slug":"world-bank-approves-495-3m-for-nigerias-northern-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/world-bank-approves-495-3m-for-nigerias-northern-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"World Bank approves $495.3m for Nigeria&#8217;s northern farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Bank\u2019s Board of Executive Directors on Friday approved a $495.3m International Development Association credit to improve farmers\u2019 access to irrigation and drainage services in the North of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>A statement issued by the bank on Friday said the money would strengthen institutional arrangements for integrated water resources management and improve delivery of agricultural services in selected, large-scale public schemes in northern Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Transforming Irrigation Management in Nigeria project will improve existing irrigation on 27,000 hectares, irrigate an additional 23,000 hectares, and benefit more than 140,000 farmers while mobilising private sector investment&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nigeria News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.punchng.com\/news\/world-bank-okays-495-3m-for-northern-farmers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Bank\u2019s Board of Executive Directors on Friday approved a $495.3m International Development Association credit to improve farmers\u2019 access to irrigation and drainage services in the North of Nigeria. A statement issued by the bank on Friday said the money would strengthen institutional arrangements for integrated water resources management and improve delivery of agricultural [&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":[249],"tags":[258,256,1430,1431,1429,257,4687,393,1432,254,1433,4692,1428],"class_list":["post-3044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-improve-farmers-access-to-irrigation","tag-integrated-water-resources-management","tag-international-development-association-credit","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias-northern-farmers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-transforming-irrigation-management-in-nigeria","tag-west-africa","tag-world-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044","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=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/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=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}