{"id":2290,"date":"2021-02-10T04:58:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T04:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spicefmhoima.com\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2022-01-19T12:05:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:05:25","slug":"wild-fires-a-threat-to-sugarcane-growing-business-in-kikuube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2021\/02\/10\/wild-fires-a-threat-to-sugarcane-growing-business-in-kikuube\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Fires a Threat to Sugarcane Growing Business in Kikuube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By John Bosco Tugume<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2292 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/national02pix-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/national02pix-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/national02pix-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/national02pix-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/national02pix.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Sugarcane farmers in Kikuube district have been asked to employ fire safety measures as a prevention measure against burning of their crops this season.<\/p>\n<p>This after over 50 acres of sugarcane belonging to Nebba Byaruhanga, the Buhimba sub-county LC3 chairman were burnt down.<\/p>\n<p>Francis Kazini Twinomuzuni, the Kikuube LC5 chairman who is also the MP elect for Buhaguzi County observes that cases of wild fires destroying sugarcane are becoming common.<\/p>\n<p>Kazini advises sugarcane farmers in the district to ensure they have a clean fire lines around their gardens which he says acts as a fire burier from reaching out their gardens.<\/p>\n<p>He also cautions the public against lighting up fires anyhow during this dry season which he says poses a big risk farmers.<\/p>\n<p>Max Omuto, the chairperson for the cane out growers asks farmers to report cases of sugarcane devastated by fires for quick harvest to avoid total loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Bosco Tugume Sugarcane farmers in Kikuube district have been asked to employ fire safety measures as a prevention measure against burning of their crops this season. This after over 50 acres of sugarcane belonging to Nebba Byaruhanga, the Buhimba sub-county LC3 chairman were burnt down. Francis Kazini Twinomuzuni, the Kikuube LC5 chairman who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3538,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions\/3538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}