{"id":14439,"date":"2019-10-05T18:22:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T16:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=14439"},"modified":"2019-10-05T18:22:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T16:22:41","slug":"government-sets-command-agriculture-funding-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/government-sets-command-agriculture-funding-conditions","title":{"rendered":"Government Sets Command Agriculture Funding Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government of Zimbabwe has set conditions for farmers who want to access\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pindula.co.zw\/Command_Agriculture\">Command Agriculture<\/a>\u00a0inputs. The conditions were revealed by Agriculture Minister who said the govt had partnered with Agribank, Stanbic, CBZ and Empowerbank to disburse the funds.<\/p>\n<p>These banks shall support A1, A2 and other large-scale farmers into soya bean and maize production. Interested farmers both new and old with a proven track record should approach their local district Agritex offices for registration, vetting and contracting for production<\/p>\n<p>Collateral is not required as the verification would have been done by the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement. The tenure of the loan is 270 days at an interest rate of 10,5 percent per annum and an upfront fee of 2,25 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The programme will avail inputs through an electronic voucher system administered through the bank and inputs will be provided at district level through suppliers, stockists and agents as will be advised by the bank during the contracting process<\/p>\n<p>Command Agriculture program is seeing its 3rd season since its inception in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of Zimbabwe has set conditions for farmers who want to access\u00a0Command Agriculture\u00a0inputs. The conditions were revealed by Agriculture Minister who said the govt had partnered with Agribank, Stanbic, CBZ and Empowerbank to disburse the funds. These banks shall support A1, A2 and other large-scale farmers into soya bean and maize production. Interested farmers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":14440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[917,789,800],"class_list":{"0":"post-14439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-economy","9":"tag-agribank","10":"tag-agriculture-in-zimbabwe","11":"tag-government-of-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Government Sets Command Agriculture Funding Conditions - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The government of Zimbabwe has set conditions for farmers who want to access\u00a0Command Agriculture\u00a0inputs. The conditions were revealed\" \/>\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.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/government-sets-command-agriculture-funding-conditions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Government Sets Command Agriculture Funding Conditions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The government of Zimbabwe has set conditions for farmers who want to access\u00a0Command Agriculture\u00a0inputs. The conditions were revealed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/government-sets-command-agriculture-funding-conditions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-10-05T16:22:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/10\/COMMAND-AGRICULTURE-1200x600.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/government-sets-command-agriculture-funding-conditions\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/government-sets-command-agriculture-funding-conditions\",\"name\":\"Government Sets Command Agriculture Funding Conditions - zimbabwe\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/government-sets-command-agriculture-funding-conditions#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/government-sets-command-agriculture-funding-conditions#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/10\/COMMAND-AGRICULTURE-1200x600.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-10-05T16:22:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-10-05T16:22:41+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4\"},\"description\":\"The government of Zimbabwe has set conditions for farmers who want to access\u00a0Command Agriculture\u00a0inputs. The conditions were revealed\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/government-sets-command-agriculture-funding-conditions#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/government-sets-command-agriculture-funding-conditions\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/government-sets-command-agriculture-funding-conditions#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/10\/COMMAND-AGRICULTURE-1200x600.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/10\/COMMAND-AGRICULTURE-1200x600.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":600},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/government-sets-command-agriculture-funding-conditions#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Government Sets Command Agriculture Funding Conditions\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/\",\"name\":\"zimbabwe\",\"description\":\"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u064a\u0648\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0627\u0639\u0629\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Government Sets Command Agriculture Funding Conditions - zimbabwe","description":"The government of Zimbabwe has set conditions for farmers who want to access\u00a0Command Agriculture\u00a0inputs. The conditions were revealed","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/government-sets-command-agriculture-funding-conditions","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Government Sets Command Agriculture Funding Conditions","og_description":"The government of Zimbabwe has set conditions for farmers who want to access\u00a0Command Agriculture\u00a0inputs. The conditions were revealed","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/government-sets-command-agriculture-funding-conditions","og_site_name":"zimbabwe","article_published_time":"2019-10-05T16:22:41+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":600,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/10\/COMMAND-AGRICULTURE-1200x600.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/government-sets-command-agriculture-funding-conditions","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/government-sets-command-agriculture-funding-conditions","name":"Government Sets Command Agriculture Funding Conditions - zimbabwe","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/government-sets-command-agriculture-funding-conditions#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/government-sets-command-agriculture-funding-conditions#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/10\/COMMAND-AGRICULTURE-1200x600.jpg","datePublished":"2019-10-05T16:22:41+00:00","dateModified":"2019-10-05T16:22:41+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4"},"description":"The government of Zimbabwe has set conditions for farmers who want to access\u00a0Command Agriculture\u00a0inputs. The conditions were revealed","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/government-sets-command-agriculture-funding-conditions#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/government-sets-command-agriculture-funding-conditions"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/government-sets-command-agriculture-funding-conditions#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/10\/COMMAND-AGRICULTURE-1200x600.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/10\/COMMAND-AGRICULTURE-1200x600.jpg","width":1200,"height":600},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/government-sets-command-agriculture-funding-conditions#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Government Sets Command Agriculture Funding Conditions"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/","name":"zimbabwe","description":"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u064a\u0648\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0627\u0639\u0629","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4","name":"cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}