{"id":11868,"date":"2024-01-13T18:08:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T18:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigerian-govt-to-boost-food-production-through-mechanisation\/"},"modified":"2024-01-13T18:08:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T18:08:10","slug":"nigerian-govt-to-boost-food-production-through-mechanisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigerian-govt-to-boost-food-production-through-mechanisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Govt to boost food production through mechanisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Federal Government says plans are underway to boost food production in the country through mechanisation.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Sen. Abubakar Kyari stated this while speaking with newsmen at the end of the National Agricultural Growth Scheme and Agro Pocket, NAGS-AP, meeting on Saturday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was organized ahead of the implementation of the second phase of 2023-2024 dry season farming in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The minister noted that mechanised farming was key to agriculture as it would support food production in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dPresident Bola Tinubu said he is going to give us all the support for mechanisation and we will soon roll out the mechanisation programme,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian Govt to boost food production through mechanisation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government says plans are underway to boost food production in the country through mechanisation. The Minister of Agriculture&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1125,15],"tags":[180],"class_list":["post-11868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fg","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}