{"id":63031,"date":"2025-03-19T14:33:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T14:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63031"},"modified":"2025-03-19T14:33:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T14:33:26","slug":"wima-calls-for-government-backing-in-women-led-mechanised-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/19\/wima-calls-for-government-backing-in-women-led-mechanised-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"WIMA Calls for Government Backing in Women Led Mechanised Farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Women in Mechanised Agriculture (WIMA), has urged the government to support its initiative that enhances women&#8217;s access to agricultural equipment and boosts productivity.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Abuja, WIMA Chairperson Dr. Aisha Waziri called on ministries and lawmakers to integrate the programme into national policies, emphasizing its potential to revolutionize farming for women across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2019 with backing from the Mastercard Foundation, the initiative connects urban women investors with rural farmers through a lease-based model.<\/p>\n<p>It has grown from six members to 500 and aims to empower 2,000 women by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Waziri highlighted the programme&#8217;s role in job creation and economic empowerment but stressed that policy support and funding are crucial for nationwide expansion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo Women in Mechanised Agriculture (WIMA), has urged the government to support its initiative that enhances women&#8217;s access to agricultural equipment and boosts productivity. Speaking in Abuja, WIMA Chairperson Dr. Aisha Waziri called on ministries and lawmakers to integrate the programme into national policies, emphasizing its potential to revolutionize farming for women across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63033,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63031\/revisions\/63033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}