{"id":4233,"date":"2025-04-15T16:36:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=4233"},"modified":"2025-04-15T16:36:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:36:50","slug":"vice-president-dr-benjamin-bol-mel-discusses-agricultural-renaissance-with-minister-of-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=4233","title":{"rendered":"Vice President Dr. Benjamin Bol Mel Discusses Agricultural Renaissance with Minister of Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Juba: Al-Wadi Newspaper<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vice President and Head of the Economic Cluster, <strong>Dr. Benjamin Bol Mel<\/strong>, held a strategic meeting with the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, <strong>Hussein Abdelbagi Akol<\/strong>, and Deputy Minister <strong>Lily Albino Akol<\/strong> to map out a roadmap for a national agricultural renaissance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The discussions focused on the upcoming <strong>National Agriculture Conference<\/strong> and the declaration of <strong>2025 as the &#8220;Year of Agriculture&#8221;<\/strong>, which is expected to serve as a launching point for achieving food security, boosting economic resilience, and fostering inclusive prosperity across South Sudan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting also reviewed the country&#8217;s preparedness for the <strong>2025 farming season<\/strong>, with an emphasis on the <strong>timely and effective distribution of agricultural inputs and machinery<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Benjamin Bol Mel expressed his satisfaction with the <strong>arrival of several new tractors<\/strong>, which are set to be deployed soon to key agricultural zones to support farming operations and increase productivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juba: Al-Wadi Newspaper Vice President and Head of the Economic Cluster, Dr. Benjamin Bol Mel, held a strategic meeting with the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Hussein Abdelbagi Akol,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4235,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233\/revisions\/4235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}