{"id":2513,"date":"2023-07-04T11:34:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T09:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctrade.co.zw\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2023-07-04T11:34:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T09:34:44","slug":"seed-co-eyes-drc-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctrade.co.zw\/?p=2513","title":{"rendered":"Seed Co eyes DRC market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ZIMBABWE&#8217;S largest seed producer <a href=\"https:\/\/seedcogroup.com\/\">Seed Co Limited<\/a> is in talks with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to supply agricultural inputs to the central African country.<\/p>\n<p>A delegation from DRC\u2019s Haut Lomami province led by media communication commissioner and government spokesperson, Mwepu Gervais Nday is in Harare to seal the deal which will involve a variety of vegetables, maize and wheat seeds, among others.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TradeZim\/\">ZimTrade <\/a>event on Monday, Nday said the visit was a chance to strengthen trade ties between Zimbabwe and the DRC in the area of agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe province of Haut Lomami offers great opportunities in terms of investments because it has major assets in several sectors namely mining, agro-pastoral, energy, tourism and infrastructure to name a few,\u201d Nday said.<\/p>\n<p>Seed Co  general manager Felistus Ndawi said: \u201cSo we were part of a delegation that visited the DRC in May in Lubumbashi and coming out of this meeting that we had in DRC, we then invited them to come through and see what we are doing as Seed Co in terms of the products that we offer both on the field crops and the vegetable side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.co.zw\/business\/article\/200012778\/seed-co-eyes-drc-market\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZIMBABWE&#8217;S largest seed producer Seed Co Limited is in talks with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to supply agricultural inputs to the central African country. A delegation from DRC\u2019s Haut Lomami province led by media communication commissioner and government spokesperson, Mwepu Gervais Nday is in Harare to seal the deal which will involve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctrade.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctrade.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctrade.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctrade.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctrade.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ctrade.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2515,"href":"https:\/\/ctrade.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions\/2515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctrade.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctrade.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctrade.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctrade.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}