{"id":868,"date":"2019-05-23T18:56:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T18:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/?p=868"},"modified":"2019-05-23T18:56:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T18:56:44","slug":"participants-of-col-programme-benefit-from-seed-distribution-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/2019\/05\/23\/participants-of-col-programme-benefit-from-seed-distribution-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Participants of COL Programme benefit from Seed Distribution Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>22nd May<\/p>\n<p>2019 Participants of COL Programme benefit from Seed Distribution Exercise<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-869\" src=\"http:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/livelihood-photo-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/livelihood-photo-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/livelihood-photo-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/livelihood-photo-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/livelihood-photo.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Senior Extension Officer in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Barbuda Affairs, Mr. Owolabi Elabanjo said that a number of participants of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) Programme are now in possession of key resources to strengthen food security and livelihood development.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, some 40 farmers from the Bolans group, the Bethesda group and the Extension Division\u2019s group were presented with a variety of seeds which included tomatoes, sweet peppers cucumbers, herbs and melons.<\/p>\n<p>The Lifelong Learning Programme for Farmers is an initiative aimed at establishing continuous learning among farming communities, particularly women, leading to improved knowledge, empowerment and sustainable livelihood.<\/p>\n<p>Elabanjo said that he is proud of the progress made regarding the programme so far.<\/p>\n<p>The senior extension officer reiterated the point that the Agriculture sector should be treated with the importance it deserves and not as a last resort for those lacking skills or have lost their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The Common Wealth of Learning Livelihood Development Programme also exposes farmers to a number of practical skills that would make them more efficient in the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22nd May 2019 Participants of COL Programme benefit from Seed Distribution Exercise &nbsp; Senior Extension Officer in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Barbuda Affairs, Mr. Owolabi Elabanjo said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-notices"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}