{"id":2471,"date":"2023-02-24T22:01:42","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T18:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farei.mu\/farei2021\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2023-02-24T22:06:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T18:06:15","slug":"press-communique-following-cyclone-freddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farei.mu\/farei2021\/?p=2471","title":{"rendered":"Press Communiqu\u00e9 following Cyclone Freddy"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2471\" class=\"elementor elementor-2471\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c1d3db6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c1d3db6\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7bfdf56\" data-id=\"7bfdf56\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bee9959 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bee9959\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 18-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\">MINIST\u00c8RE DE L\u2019AGRO-INDUSTRIE ET DE LA SECURIT\u00c9 ALIMENTAIRE<\/span><\/strong><\/p><h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Press Communiqu\u00e9 following Cyclone Freddy<\/h3>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a3572ed elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a3572ed\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-26aa1f7\" data-id=\"26aa1f7\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6e6a3ce elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6e6a3ce\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>1. The Ministry of Agro-Industry and Food Security informs farmers that following the torrential rainfall and adverse climatic conditions that prevailed during cyclone Freddy from 18th to 21st February 2023. field visits are presently being carried out by the Small Farmers Welfare Fund (SFWF) and the Food and Agricultural Research and Extension Unit (FAREI) to assess the extent of damage to fields. A financial assistance would be provided to registered farmers following this assessment.<\/p><p>2. Planters are advised to take the following measures:<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u2022 Drain the excess water from their fields;<br \/>\u2022 Apply fungicides on existing crops;<br \/>\u2022 Undertake preventive field remediations; and<br \/>\u2022 Carry out fertilization according to requirements<\/p><p>3. Breeders are advised to avoid feeding animals with freshly harvested forage, to avoid the incidence of bloating and to keep animals in dry conditions to avoid moisture-related infections.<\/p><p>4. Planters are also informed that they may for:<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u2022 A subsidy of Rs. 3,000\/arpent up to a maximum of 5 arpents under the Subsidy on Agricultural Mechanisation Scheme (SAM) for mechanization of their plantations; and<br \/>\u2022 A subsidy of 50% under the Fertiliser Subsidy Scheme (FSS), 60% under the Bio Farming Subsidy Scheme (BFSS) and 75% under the Locally Produced Fertiliser Subsidy Scheme (LPFS).<\/p><p>5. For more information on the above two schemes, SFWF may be contacted on the following phone numbers:<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I. Moka, FSA Building, St. Pierre (Tel: 433 2052)<br \/>II. East, SFWF Belle Mare (Tel: 5 907 6254)<br \/>III. SFWF, La Marie, Vacoas (Tel: 684 0434)<br \/>IV. SFWF, FSA Building, Union Park (Tel: 677 1274)<br \/>V. SFWF, FSA Building, Solitude (Tel: 261 2751)<br \/>VI. SFWF, FSA Building, Rivi\u00e8re du Rempart (Tel: 409 0771)<\/p><p>6. Onion and vegetable seeds would be distributed, free of charge to registered farmers, based on a production plan being prepared by FAREI.<\/p><p>7. Additionally, farmers are advised to apply for:<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u2022 Sheltered Farm Net\/Plastic Replacement Scheme; and<br \/>\u2022 Livestock Development Scheme for upgrading their Livestock farm.<\/p><p>8. The following FAREI Offices may be contacted for more details in the above two schemes.<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I. FAREI, Royal Road, Camp Garreau, Flacq (Tel: 413 8125\/413 4617)<br \/>II. FAREI, Vacoas Sub Office (Tel: 606 3087)<br \/>III. FAREI, R. d. Anguilles, Model Farm (Tel: 627 2554)<br \/>IV. FAREI, FSA Building, Goodlands (Tel: 282 0563)<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: right;\"><strong>23rd February 2023<\/strong><br \/><strong>Ministry of Agro-Industry and Food Security<\/strong><br \/><strong>Renganaden Seeneevassen Building<\/strong><br \/><strong>Cnr Jules Koenig and Maillard Streets<\/strong><br \/><strong>Port Louis<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINIST\u00c8RE DE L\u2019AGRO-INDUSTRIE ET DE LA SECURIT\u00c9 ALIMENTAIRE Press Communiqu\u00e9 following Cyclone Freddy 1. The Ministry of Agro-Industry and Food Security informs farmers that following the torrential rainfall and adverse climatic conditions that prevailed during cyclone Freddy from 18th to 21st February 2023. field visits are presently being carried out by the Small Farmers Welfare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"plain-container","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"disabled","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"disabled","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farei.mu\/farei2021\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farei.mu\/farei2021\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farei.mu\/farei2021\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farei.mu\/farei2021\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farei.mu\/farei2021\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/farei.mu\/farei2021\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2474,"href":"https:\/\/farei.mu\/farei2021\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions\/2474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farei.mu\/farei2021\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farei.mu\/farei2021\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farei.mu\/farei2021\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}