{"id":9229,"date":"2024-04-17T16:33:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T16:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/?p=9229"},"modified":"2024-04-17T16:36:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T16:36:09","slug":"agricultural-extension-officers-on-the-move-part-5-soil-doctor-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/2024\/04\/17\/agricultural-extension-officers-on-the-move-part-5-soil-doctor-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Agricultural Extension Officers on the Move part 5 (Soil Doctor programme)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 15<sup>th<\/sup> April, several female farmers known as the \u201c<strong>Coconut Queens\u201d<\/strong> were the next set of producers that received training under the <strong><em>Soil Doctor<\/em><\/strong> programme.\u00a0 The session was conducted by Miss Oneicia Anthony, Agricultural Extension Officers for the Southwest District.\u00a0 The workshop was held from 5:00 to 7:00 in the Agricultural Extension Division located in the old PDO building.<\/p>\n<p>The participants received training in testing the soil for inorganic and organic matters, and soil Ph.\u00a0\u00a0 The participants were Nicole Browne, Slyvaneta Charles, Theresa Joseph, Taril Walker-Bowen and Bernadine Davis.\u00a0 \u201cIt was a good session, the ladies brought soil samples from their farms and the tests were shown to them then they each had to demonstrate the procedures\u201d, reported Miss Anthony.<\/p>\n<p>Similar and other trainings will be available and interested persons can either contact their district officers, the Agricultural Extension Division, the Ministry\u2019s Face book page, website or the Communications department within the Ministry of Agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/6064eeda-6042-40ad-bd33-8fa286792acd.jpg\" width=\"278\" height=\"371\" \/>\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/5e27b26d-6fa6-4399-9ffa-76d78fd56ac7.jpg\" width=\"370\" height=\"370\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 15th April, several female farmers known as the \u201cCoconut Queens\u201d were the next set of producers that received training under the Soil Doctor programme.\u00a0 The session was conducted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"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-9229","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\/9229","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9229"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9233,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9229\/revisions\/9233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}