{"id":4117,"date":"2021-08-15T15:17:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T15:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?p=4117"},"modified":"2021-08-15T15:16:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T15:16:50","slug":"govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation","title":{"rendered":"Govt urged to incentivize agriculture to attract youth participation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Malawi<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Young people in the country have urged the government to incentivise agriculture in order to attract youth participation. Speaking during the commemoration of the International Youth Day in Lilongwe, the National Youth Council of Malawi (NYCOM) Chief Executive Officer, Dingiswayo Jere, said young people need new technologies in the agriculture sector to make it attractive.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur nation should move in to modernized system of agriculture from the traditional way in order to make it exciting to the youth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Jere said authorities should allow young people to participate in decision-making processes, stressing that this is crucial in innovating ideas that can transform the sector.<\/p>\n

A young entrepreneur and Agribuz Hub Director, Msekiwa Masimbe, said agriculture can be transformed by the participation of young people through their innovative ideas.<\/p>\n

\u201cYoung people can bring in new technologies in the sector including marketing, irrigation, value addition among others,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The Director of Planning in the Ministry of Agriculture, Rodwell Mzonde, said government is looking on ways on how possible they can support youths by providing finances so that they venture into agriculture.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is already in the policy to empower youths in terms of giving out capital for agriculture,\u201d he said. Youths constitute the majority of the population in Malawi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. Young people in the country have urged the government to incentivise agriculture in order to attract youth participation. Speaking during the commemoration of the International Youth Day in Lilongwe, the National Youth Council of Malawi (NYCOM) Chief Executive Officer, Dingiswayo Jere, said young people need new technologies in the agriculture sector to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":4116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[233,371,1751,234,1752],"class_list":["post-4117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-dingiswayo-jere","tag-malawi","tag-national-youth-council"],"yoast_head":"\nGovt urged to incentivize agriculture to attract youth participation - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Young people in the country have urged the government to incentivise agriculture in order to attract youth participation ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Govt urged to incentivize agriculture to attract youth participation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Young people in the country have urged the government to incentivise agriculture in order to attract youth participation ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-08-15T15:17:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/08\/img-61192f9168236.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"960\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Govt urged to incentivize agriculture to attract youth participation\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-08-15T15:17:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation\"},\"wordCount\":221,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/08\/img-61192f9168236.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Dingiswayo Jere,\",\"Malawi\",\"National Youth Council\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation\",\"name\":\"Govt urged to incentivize agriculture to attract youth participation - Malawi\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/08\/img-61192f9168236.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-08-15T15:17:50+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Young people in the country have urged the government to incentivise agriculture in order to attract youth participation ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/08\/img-61192f9168236.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/08\/img-61192f9168236.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":960,\"caption\":\"Govt urged to incentivize agriculture to attract youth participation\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Govt urged to incentivize agriculture to attract youth participation\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/\",\"name\":\"Malawi\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Govt urged to incentivize agriculture to attract youth participation - Malawi","description":"Young people in the country have urged the government to incentivise agriculture in order to attract youth participation ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Govt urged to incentivize agriculture to attract youth participation","og_description":"Young people in the country have urged the government to incentivise agriculture in order to attract youth participation ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation","og_site_name":"Malawi","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2021-08-15T15:17:50+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":960,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/08\/img-61192f9168236.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Govt urged to incentivize agriculture to attract youth participation","datePublished":"2021-08-15T15:17:50+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation"},"wordCount":221,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/08\/img-61192f9168236.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Malawi","Dingiswayo Jere,","Malawi","National Youth Council"],"articleSection":["all news","head lines","homepage-english","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation","name":"Govt urged to incentivize agriculture to attract youth participation - Malawi","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/08\/img-61192f9168236.jpg","datePublished":"2021-08-15T15:17:50+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Young people in the country have urged the government to incentivise agriculture in order to attract youth participation ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/08\/img-61192f9168236.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/08\/img-61192f9168236.jpg","width":720,"height":960,"caption":"Govt urged to incentivize agriculture to attract youth participation"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-urged-to-incentivize-agriculture-to-attract-youth-participation#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Govt urged to incentivize agriculture to attract youth participation"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/","name":"Malawi","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}