President-elect John Dramani Mahama was spotted harvesting crops on his private farm in Busunu and Yapei over the weekend. The crops included yellow maize and soya beans, which are being sent to Asutuare Farms in the Eastern Region for poultry feed production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mahama explained that the past weekend was busy for farmers in the area, as they rushed to harvest their crops before the bushfires could destroy them. He noted that one of the major challenges farmers faced this year was water scarcity, which affected plant growth, as well as a lack of equipment for farming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The president-elect also shared his experience with livestock farming, stating that he started with 300 animals and now has 500. He has an additional 200 animals that are only two months old, and he’s waiting to see the results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
President-Elect Mahama Seen Harvesting Crops<\/p>\n
President-elect John Dramani Mahama was spotted harvesting crops on his private farm in Busunu and Yapei over the weekend. The crops included yellow maize and soya beans, which are being sent to Asutuare Farms in the Eastern Region for poultry feed production.<\/p>\n
Mahama explained that the past weekend was busy for farmers in the area, as they rushed to harvest their crops before the bushfires could destroy them. He noted that one of the major challenges farmers faced this year was water scarcity, which affected plant growth, as well as a lack of equipment for farming.<\/p>\n
The president-elect also shared his experience with livestock farming, stating that he started with 300 animals and now has 500. He has an additional 200 animals that are only two months old, and he’s waiting to see the results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-latest","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3552,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions\/3552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}