{"id":875,"date":"2019-11-04T10:40:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T10:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesoil.co.zw\/?p=875"},"modified":"2019-11-04T10:40:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T10:40:59","slug":"planting-maize-this-season-organic-method-the-way-to-go-says-foundation-for-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thesoil.co.zw\/index.php\/2019\/11\/04\/planting-maize-this-season-organic-method-the-way-to-go-says-foundation-for-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"Planting maize this season: organic method the way to go says Foundation For Farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organic farming involves using techniques to achieve good crop yields without harming the natural environment.<br \/>\nAccording to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesoil.co.zw\">Foundation for Farming<\/a> using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesoil.co.zw\">organic method<\/a> on maize production is the best way to use as farmers since it increases yield and reduces on cost.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Methods and materials that organic farmers should use are:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe best method to keep and build good soil structure and fertility farmers should use are:<br \/>\n\u2022 recycled and composted crop wastes and animal manures<br \/>\n\u2022 the right soil cultivation at the right time<br \/>\n\u2022 crop-rotation<br \/>\n\u2022 green manures and legumes<br \/>\n\u2022 mulching on the soil surface<br \/>\nIt is stated in their training video that organic farming also involves careful use of water resources and good animal husbandry.<\/p>\n<p>Foundation For Farmers also stated that the best date to put your seed down is 25 November for best yields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organic farming involves using techniques to achieve good crop yields without harming the natural environment. According to the Foundation for Farming using the organic method on maize production is the best way to use as farmers since it increases yield and reduces on cost. Methods and materials that organic farmers should use are: The best&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[69],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesoil.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesoil.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesoil.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesoil.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesoil.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thesoil.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"http:\/\/thesoil.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesoil.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesoil.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesoil.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesoil.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}