{"id":6788,"date":"2013-03-28T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/crops-uprooted-to-pave-way-for-terraces-in\/"},"modified":"2013-03-28T05:00:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T05:00:40","slug":"crops-uprooted-to-pave-way-for-terraces-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/crops-uprooted-to-pave-way-for-terraces-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Crops Uprooted for Terraces in Kayonza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Residents of Nyakanazi cell in Murama Sector of Kayonza District have expressed dissatisfaction about the manner in which terraces are being implemented in their area.}}<\/p>\n<p>They told IGIHE that most of their crops have been uprooted yet the area has been affected drought in the previous months leaving most residents hungry.<\/p>\n<p>The residents say the only crops they had planted owing to the recent rains were their only hope but the terracing program has brought their hopes down.<\/p>\n<p>They thus demand for an immediate suspension of uprooting their crops saying priority should be given to crops instead of terraces.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the Minister of Local Government James Musoni had warned local leaders against destroying farmers crops that have failed to comply with Crop regionalization policy.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister also revealed similar incidences have been reported in Kayonza District where farmers were asked to destroy their sorghum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Residents of Nyakanazi cell in Murama Sector of Kayonza District have expressed dissatisfaction about the manner in which terraces are being implemented in their area.}} They told IGIHE that most of their crops have been uprooted yet the area has been affected drought in the previous months leaving most residents hungry. The residents say the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-6788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-dusabemungu-ange-de-la-victoire"],"bylines":[{"id":474,"name":"Dusabemungu Ange de la Victoire","slug":"dusabemungu-ange-de-la-victoire","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":474,"name":"Dusabemungu Ange de la Victoire","slug":"dusabemungu-ange-de-la-victoire","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6788"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=6788"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=6788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}