{"id":914901,"date":"2022-01-10T06:16:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T06:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/10\/wetangula-wants-fertiliser-prices-reduced-ahead-of-planting-season\/"},"modified":"2022-01-10T06:16:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T06:16:10","slug":"wetangula-wants-fertiliser-prices-reduced-ahead-of-planting-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/10\/wetangula-wants-fertiliser-prices-reduced-ahead-of-planting-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Wetang\u2019ula wants fertiliser prices reduced ahead of planting season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"art-img row mx-md-0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/xshtmredih1z61dbc9c68ce90.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\">\n<p><strong>One Kenya Alliance (OKA) Principal Moses Wetangula. <\/strong>[Stafford Ondego, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">Bungoma Senator Moses\u00a0Wetang\u2019ula\u00a0has urged the government to lower the prices of\u00a0fertilisers\u00a0ahead of the next planting season.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Ford Kenya leader regretted that many farmers were facing harsh economic times and some were unable to purchase\u00a0fertilisers\u00a0due to the high prices. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Webuye East constituency,\u00a0Wetang\u2019ula\u00a0noted that the region greatly depends on agriculture as its means of livelihood.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the government doesn\u2019t lower the\u00a0fertiliser\u00a0prices, then most farmers in the region will be unable to engage in farming, and this will lead to food shortage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Touching on the issue of long truck queues along the Bungoma-Malaba highway, he said that the situation is a risk to the residents, and asked the government move with speed and settle the stalemate at the Kenya-Uganda border.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of these trucks parked along the highway are ferrying dangerous goods that pose a risk to the residents,\u201d said\u00a0Wetang\u2019ula, adding that some of the lorries are carrying petroleum which is inflammable.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"justify-content-start\">\n<button class=\"tags-btn mr-4 mb-3 load-more\"><br \/>\nMoses\u00a0Wetang\u2019ula<br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<button class=\"tags-btn mr-4 mb-3 load-more\"><br \/>\nFertiliser Prices<br \/>\n<\/button>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001433953\/wetang-ula-wants-fertiliser-prices-reduced-ahead-of-planting-season\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Kenya Alliance (OKA) Principal Moses Wetangula. [Stafford Ondego, Standard] Bungoma Senator Moses\u00a0Wetang\u2019ula\u00a0has urged the government to lower the prices of\u00a0fertilisers\u00a0ahead of the next planting season. The Ford Kenya leader regretted that many farmers were facing harsh economic times and some were unable to purchase\u00a0fertilisers\u00a0due to the high prices. Speaking in Webuye East constituency,\u00a0Wetang\u2019ula\u00a0noted that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}