{"id":2740,"date":"2021-06-17T07:56:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T07:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spicefmhoima.com\/?p=2740"},"modified":"2022-01-19T12:05:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:05:20","slug":"fica-seeds-company-fails-to-pay-masindi-maize-farmers-sh1-2bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2021\/06\/17\/fica-seeds-company-fails-to-pay-masindi-maize-farmers-sh1-2bn\/","title":{"rendered":"FICA Seeds Company Fails To Pay Masindi Maize Farmers Sh1.2bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Peter Abanabasazi\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2741 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/download-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"170\" \/>A bitter row has erupted between over 400 maize farmers and FICA Seeds\u2013 a seeds producing and marketing company over failure g to pay them Shs1.2 billion in maize supplies.<\/p>\n<p>According to Job Kaheeru, the chairperson of the aggrieved farmers, they supplied over a million ton of maize Open Pollinated Varieties (OPV) and hybrid seeds in the last two seasons to the seed company but no single payment has been advanced to them.<\/p>\n<p>He says that they are demanding money for the maize produce they supplied in the second season of 2019 and two seasons of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, farmers borrowed money from micro-finance institutions expecting to pay back in time and they are grappling with loans.<\/p>\n<p>Kaheeru adds that some farmers are losing their investments and FICA Seeds is not bothered at all, to pay them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Peter Abanabasazi\u00a0 A bitter row has erupted between over 400 maize farmers and FICA Seeds\u2013 a seeds producing and marketing company over failure g to pay them Shs1.2 billion in maize supplies. According to Job Kaheeru, the chairperson of the aggrieved farmers, they supplied over a million ton of maize Open Pollinated Varieties (OPV) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bunyoro","8":"category-business","9":"category-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740","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=2740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3421,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions\/3421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}