{"id":440675,"date":"2011-06-14T05:53:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T05:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/14\/agriculture-ministry-says-there-is-no-food-crisis\/"},"modified":"2011-06-14T05:53:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T05:53:41","slug":"agriculture-ministry-says-there-is-no-food-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/14\/agriculture-ministry-says-there-is-no-food-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Agriculture Ministry Says There is No Food Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"13.5624227441\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nairobistar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nairobi Star<\/a> (Nairobi)<\/p>\n<p>Diana Madegwa<\/p>\n<p>13 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>The ministry of agriculture insists there is no food crisis in the country despite the drought situation having been declared a national disatster.<\/p>\n<p>Agriculture secretary Wilson Songa says there is enough food to feed the country until the next season but farmers are hoarding it, especially maize cereals.<\/p>\n<p>The drought has already been declared a national disaster. Songa says money allocated to the ministry by treasury in this year&#8217;s budget will enable them come up with measures to avert a future food crisis.<\/p>\n<p>He is also urging farmers who are hoarding maize to release it to the market to stabilize prices.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106140077.html\" title=\"Agriculture Ministry Says There is No Food Crisis\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Agriculture Ministry Says There is No Food Crisis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Nairobi Star (Nairobi) Diana Madegwa 13 June 2011 The ministry of agriculture insists there is no food crisis in the country despite the drought situation having been declared a national disatster. Agriculture secretary Wilson Songa says there is enough food to feed the country until the next season but farmers are hoarding it, especially maize cereals. The drought has already been declared a national disaster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":440281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-440675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Agriculture Ministry Says There is No Food Crisis - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/14\/agriculture-ministry-says-there-is-no-food-crisis\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Agriculture Ministry Says There is No Food Crisis - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Nairobi Star (Nairobi) Diana Madegwa 13 June 2011 The ministry of agriculture insists there is no food crisis in the country despite the drought situation having been declared a national disatster. 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