{"id":1381,"date":"2014-01-16T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2014\/01\/16\/department-welcomes-the-good-festive-rains\/"},"modified":"2014-01-16T19:39:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T19:39:00","slug":"department-welcomes-the-good-festive-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2014\/01\/16\/department-welcomes-the-good-festive-rains\/","title":{"rendered":"Department welcomes festive rains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">The Northern Cape Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development has welcomed the good rains that has rained in the past days. The Festive rains will ease the burden on our farmers especially the emerging farmers who are the hardest hit by drought. It will also bring a sigh of relief to our farmers both commercial and emerging.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">The Department was noting with concern the dryness of the veld, due to lack of rain in the past months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">The dryness of the vegetation due to lack of rain create perfect conditions for runaway veld fires.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">Issued by: Directorate Communication Services. Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">Enquiries: Phemelo Manankong \u2013 External Communications Officer<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">Tel: 053 8025 622\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cell 071 8895 112<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Cape Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development has welcomed the good rains that has rained in the past days. The Festive rains will ease the burden on our farmers especially the emerging farmers who are the hardest hit by drought. It will also bring a sigh of relief to our farmers<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2014\/01\/16\/department-welcomes-the-good-festive-rains\/\" class=\"themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-statements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}