{"id":3546,"date":"2026-04-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2026-04-15T09:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:30:28","slug":"kalumbila-farmer-appeals-for-government-help-in-soya-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=3546","title":{"rendered":"KALUMBILA FARMER APPEALS FOR GOVERNMENT HELP IN SOYA MARKETING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A farmer in Kalumbila District of North-Western Province has appealed to the government to help create market for soya bean farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Dennis Masuwa said small-scale farmers in Kalumbila and the Province at large have for a long time struggled to sell their produce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He explained that unlike maize which was easy to sell and fetched more money, farmers were shunning planting soya beans due to lack of readily available market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Mr Masuwa said soya beans was among the nutritious foods farmers should be encouraged to grow especially if they were to continue to practice crop diversification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;If we are to be motivated to continue growing soya beans government should consider increasing the market flow price for soya beans,&#8221; he emphasised.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A farmer in Kalumbila District of North-Western Province has appealed to the government to help create market for soya bean farmers. Dennis Masuwa said small-scale farmers in Kalumbila and the Province at large have for a long time struggled to sell their produce. He explained that unlike maize which was easy to sell and fetched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3547,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions\/3547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}