{"id":11089,"date":"2019-05-05T14:19:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T14:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/necfu.org\/necfu\/?p=11089"},"modified":"2019-05-05T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T14:21:07","slug":"farmers-get-drought-relief-from-old-mutual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necfu.org\/index.php\/2019\/05\/05\/farmers-get-drought-relief-from-old-mutual\/","title":{"rendered":"FARMERS GET DROUGHT RELIEF FROM OLD MUTUAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11090 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/necfu.org\/necfu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/old-mutual-sponsors-n385-000-to-aid-farmers-during-drought2019-03-290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/necfu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/old-mutual-sponsors-n385-000-to-aid-farmers-during-drought2019-03-290.jpg 800w, https:\/\/necfu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/old-mutual-sponsors-n385-000-to-aid-farmers-during-drought2019-03-290-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/necfu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/old-mutual-sponsors-n385-000-to-aid-farmers-during-drought2019-03-290-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Old Mutual supported drought stricken farmers with N$385,000 through the \u2018Dare to Care disaster Relief Campaign\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">At an event this week at the Namibia Agricultural Union Head Office, Ryno van der Merwe, President of the Agricultural Union of Namibia (NAU) expressed his grave concern about the prevailing drought in Namibia, calling it a national disaster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">\u201cI do not know what the future holds and ow our producers are going to recover after this drought, but what I do know is that all of us have to support the various producers,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Kosmas Egumbo, Old Mutual Namibia CEO said Namibians need to unite as a nation and that interventions like the Dare to Care campaign will address the most immediate needs of the Namibian farmers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">\u201cIt is with appreciation and humility that we are coming in to support our farmers, we cannot talk of a nation, if we do not have a sufficient level of production capacity, locally, to be able to feed ourselves,\u201d highlighted Egumbo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/economist.com.na\/43000\/general-news\/farmers-get-drought-relief-from-old-mutual\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Mutual supported drought stricken farmers with N$385,000 through the \u2018Dare to Care disaster Relief Campaign\u2019. At an event this week at the Namibia Agricultural Union Head Office, Ryno van&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/necfu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/necfu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/necfu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necfu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necfu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/necfu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11093,"href":"https:\/\/necfu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11089\/revisions\/11093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necfu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/necfu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necfu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necfu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}