{"id":1049,"date":"2025-07-21T12:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.grz.gov.zm\/zanis\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:58:07","slug":"senga-hill-farmers-praised-for-recording-bumper-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=1049","title":{"rendered":"Senga Hill farmers praised for recording bumper harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A civic leader in Senga Hill Constituency has praised farmers in the district for recording a maize bumper harvest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chozi Ward Councillor Jackson Chama in Senga Hill District said the area has continued to record bumper harvests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr Chama explained that the area recorded a bumper harvest during the 2023\/2024 farming season despite some areas experiencing floods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said this in an interview with ZANIS in Senga Hill District.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr Chama noted that the ward has this year recorded another bumper harvest this marketing season, as can be seen by the stocks of maize at FRA depots.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He thanked the government for increasing the floor price from K330 last marking season to K340 this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The civic leader has since encouraged farmers to take their produce to the FRA in order to contribute to the national food basket.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr Chama disclosed that the increment will motivate farmers who have taken farming as a lucrative business venture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A civic leader in Senga Hill Constituency has praised farmers in the district for recording a maize bumper harvest. Chozi Ward Councillor Jackson Chama in Senga Hill District said the area has continued to record bumper harvests. Mr Chama explained that the area recorded a bumper harvest during the 2023\/2024 farming season despite some areas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-latestnewsright","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}