{"id":79750,"date":"2019-06-28T03:08:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T01:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=79750"},"modified":"2019-06-28T03:08:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T01:08:04","slug":"firm-trains-youths-in-spray-equip-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/06\/28\/firm-trains-youths-in-spray-equip-repairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Firm trains youths in spray equip repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Sam Banda Jnr: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79757\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79757\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/youth-at-work.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-79757\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/youth-at-work-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/youth-at-work-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/youth-at-work-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/youth-at-work-95x64.jpg 95w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/youth-at-work.jpg 538w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AT WORK\u2014Youth members repair spray equipment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Farmers Organisation Limited has started training youths in some parts of the country on repairing and maintenance of spray equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation said it had embarked on the move as a way of helping the youth start small-scale businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Farmers Organisation Limited Supervisor responsible for spray repairs and maintenance, Boniface Nyirongo, said the training would also expose youths to potential markets.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe have trained some staff members who are assisting farmers with the repairs. I actually advise small-scale farmers to come to Farmers Organisation and we will take them through the process,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the beneficiaries of the initiative, Clinton Mafunga, thanked Farmers Organisation for the training.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThis is something unique. This is why I am well equipped,\u201d<\/em> Mafunga said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sam Banda Jnr: Farmers Organisation Limited has started training youths in some parts of the country on repairing and maintenance of spray equipment. The organisation said it had embarked on the move as a way of helping the youth start small-scale businesses. Farmers Organisation Limited Supervisor responsible for spray repairs and maintenance, Boniface Nyirongo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79758,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79750\/revisions\/79758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}