{"id":7783,"date":"2022-05-26T08:21:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T08:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7783"},"modified":"2022-05-26T08:21:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T08:21:58","slug":"meru-county-farmers-urged-to-embrace-sustainable-farming-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7783","title":{"rendered":"Meru County farmers urged to embrace sustainable farming systems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Meru First Lady Priscilla Murungi has encouraged farmers to embrace sustainable and responsible farming practices to mitigate the heavy burden of cancer that Meru County is facing due to overuse of herbicides, pesticides and other aggressive chemicals on agricultural produce among other causatives. She implored them to put the interests of common good ahead of acquisition of wealth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking during a women empowerment forum in Kibirichia, Buuri sub-county, the first lady asked all women to take pride in their role of nurturing the society and engage in diverse income generating projects to multiply wealth and achieve financial independence. Women have also been urged to take care of their health by eating well balanced meals and going for cancer screening regularly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More women have been encouraged to take advantage of available grants and revolving funds such as the Twaweza Women Empowerment Programme and Women Enterprise Fund among others, to access low risk seed capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mrs-murungi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mrs-murungi.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mrs-murungi-480x342.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 960px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meru First Lady Priscilla Murungi has encouraged farmers to embrace sustainable and responsible farming practices to mitigate the heavy burden of cancer that Meru County is facing due to overuse of herbicides, pesticides and other aggressive chemicals on agricultural produce among other causatives. She implored them to put the interests of common good ahead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/first-lady.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7786,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions\/7786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}