{"id":488,"date":"2022-07-25T12:03:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T12:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcenr.gov.sd\/en\/?p=488"},"modified":"2022-07-25T12:03:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T12:03:45","slug":"the-environment-council-uses-agricultural-research-to-support-small-farmers-and-herders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hcenr.gov.sd\/en\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"The Environment Council uses agricultural research to support small farmers and herders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A memorandum of understanding was signed between the Supreme Council for Environment and Natural Resources and the Agricultural Research Corporation (ARC) , today. The\u00a0\u00a0 memorandum of understanding looks for cooperation in providing technical support and guidance to small farmers and herders in the localities in the White Nile State, where Climate Change Adaptation Project is operating. It was signed by Dr.\u00a0 \u00a0Mona Ali Mohamed Ahmed, Director General of the Council and Professor Abdel Moneim Taha from ARC.The project\u2019s country director, Ibrahim Balila, announces \u00a0that the memorandum of understanding allows ARC \u00a0to supervise farmers\u2019 schools directly through field surveys, identifying target villages, technical specifications for demonstration farms, organizing farmers, purchasing improved and drought-resistant varieties seeds, using modern agricultural technologies, and post-harvest treatments \u00a0for farmers and shepherds in coordination with the technology transfer and extension department in the state for the purpose of increasing productivity and applying an ecosystem approach.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A memorandum of understanding was signed between the Supreme Council for Environment and Natural Resources and the Agricultural Research Corporation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcenr.gov.sd\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcenr.gov.sd\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcenr.gov.sd\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcenr.gov.sd\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcenr.gov.sd\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hcenr.gov.sd\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/hcenr.gov.sd\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcenr.gov.sd\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcenr.gov.sd\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcenr.gov.sd\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcenr.gov.sd\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}