{"id":4062,"date":"2022-09-07T17:42:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T17:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/the-women-turning-rice-farming-into-wealth-in-sierra-leone\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T17:42:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T17:42:03","slug":"the-women-turning-rice-farming-into-wealth-in-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/the-women-turning-rice-farming-into-wealth-in-sierra-leone\/","title":{"rendered":"The women turning rice farming into wealth in Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Agriculture accounts for almost half of Sierra Leone&#8217;s Gross Domestic Product.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Sixty percent of the population work in the agriculture sector and majority of them are women. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Subsistence farming is a key industry, but a group of women in the country\u2019s Southern region have managed to turn theirs into a highly profitable business. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">BBC Africa reporter Azeezat Olaoluwa has spoken to Mamie Achion who is leading a group of women who have managed to turn their farming into a highly profitable business. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Reporter: Azeezat Olaoluwa<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Producers: Ann-Marie Yiannacou &amp; Princess Irede Abumere<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Filmed and edited: Joshua Akinyemi<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-62827270?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agriculture accounts for almost half of Sierra Leone&#8217;s Gross Domestic Product. Sixty percent of the population work in the agriculture sector and majority of them are women. Subsistence farming is a key industry, but a group of women in the country\u2019s Southern region have managed to turn theirs into a highly profitable business. BBC Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4064,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions\/4064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}