{"id":7001,"date":"2012-02-06T11:51:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T11:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=7001"},"modified":"2012-02-06T11:51:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T11:51:24","slug":"late-rains-in-malawi-may-reduce-the-countrys-agricultural-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/06\/late-rains-in-malawi-may-reduce-the-countrys-agricultural-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Late rains in Malawi may reduce the country\u2019s agricultural production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> by Frank Jomo<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/rains.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/rains.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"rains\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7003\" \/><\/a>Late rains in Malawi may reduce the country\u2019s agricultural production, according to the southeast African country\u2019s Farmers Union.<\/p>\n<p>Rains in the southern African nation, which usually start between October and November, only came to several districts around the beginning of the year and  some farmers have pulled up plantings due to wilting , the union said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMalawi\u2019s southern region will be affected most because this is the area where rains come first,\u201d Felix Jumbe, the union\u2019s president, said. \u201cThe farmers who have uprooted their seedlings must be helped quickly,\u201d he said. \u201cWe also need to plan on which crops to promote in the wake of adverse weather conditions,\u201d Jumbe said, adding that now that rains have started, \u201cthere is hope the impact will be minimal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will carry out crop estimates sometime in April,\u201d Secretary for Agriculture Erica Maganga said. \u201cThat is the only time we will know how much damage the rains have caused on agriculture production.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Malawi relies on tobacco for 60 percent of its foreign exchange earnings, with tea the second-largest earner. Corn is the country\u2019s staple food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Frank Jomo Late rains in Malawi may reduce the country\u2019s agricultural production, according to the southeast African country\u2019s Farmers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[462,324,808],"class_list":["post-7001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","tag-crop","tag-food","tag-rain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}