{"id":3571,"date":"2014-05-28T13:04:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T13:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/?page_id=3571"},"modified":"2016-06-06T10:11:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T10:11:46","slug":"challenges-faced-agriculture-sector","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/challenges-faced-agriculture-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenges faced by the agriculture sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Poor farming techniques<\/li>\n<li>Limited access to quality farm inputs<\/li>\n<li>Too much relying on rain<\/li>\n<li>Inadequate disease control facilities.<\/li>\n<li>Lack of awareness by farmers on better farming methods<\/li>\n<li>Low incomes of farmers to purchase the necessary farm inputs<\/li>\n<li>Limited funding by government and private sector to agricultural sector<\/li>\n<li>Low production and productivity resulting in low revenue<\/li>\n<li>Low value addition to agricultural produce<\/li>\n<li>Inadequate storage and high post harvest losses<\/li>\n<li>Land limitation in some areas<\/li>\n<li>Inadequate physical infrastructure to support the sector<\/li>\n<li>Poor transport limiting access to markets<\/li>\n<li>Lack of arable land and organic manure<\/li>\n<li>Lack of appropriate techniques in production, processing, storage, marketing and consumption<\/li>\n<li>Climatic disasters such as floods, droughts and land slides<\/li>\n<li>Lack of priority given to the agricultural sector<\/li>\n<li>Population pressures have led to overuse of land and declining fertility.<\/li>\n<li>Extension services are weak.<\/li>\n<li>Uncertain land tenure arrangements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor farming techniques Limited access to quality farm inputs Too much relying on rain Inadequate disease control facilities. Lack of awareness by farmers on better farming methods Low incomes of farmers to purchase the necessary farm inputs Limited funding by government and private sector to agricultural sector Low production and productivity resulting in low revenue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3571","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4Xm5Y-VB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}