{"id":32888,"date":"2019-03-27T20:45:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T18:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-hydroponics-revolutionize-farming-in-kenya\/"},"modified":"2019-03-27T20:45:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T18:45:15","slug":"kenya-hydroponics-revolutionize-farming-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-hydroponics-revolutionize-farming-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Hydroponics Revolutionize Farming in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hydroponics is the science of growing plants without soil. It&#8217;s relatively recent in Kenya, and it needs an energy intensive climate control system to work well. However, recent developments now allow farmers to practice hydroponics in simple, off-grid sheds.  CCTV&#8217;s Carol Oyola spoke to Peter Chege, one of the first hydroponics farmers in Kenya<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CJPrRt1IvqQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">source<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydroponics is the science of growing plants without soil. It&#8217;s relatively recent in Kenya, and it needs an energy intensive climate control system to work well. However, recent developments now allow farmers to practice hydroponics in simple, off-grid sheds. CCTV&#8217;s Carol Oyola spoke to Peter Chege, one of the first hydroponics farmers in Kenya source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,27448,27206,4309,27450,27449,4688,27249,430,4524,257,15605,254],"class_list":["post-32888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agriculture-industry","tag-cctvafrica","tag-farming","tag-hydroponics","tag-hydroponics-competitive-space","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-country","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyan","tag-news","tag-revolutionize","tag-south-africa-today","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32888","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32888\/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=32888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}