{"id":9932,"date":"2019-10-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/news\/phoukhoun-farmers-suffering-from-water-shortage\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T11:46:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T11:46:51","slug":"phoukhoun-farmers-suffering-from-water-shortage","status":"publish","type":"news-post","link":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/news\/phoukhoun-farmers-suffering-from-water-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoukhoun farmers suffering from water shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>District Governor Mr Viengthong Hatsachan recently went to meet residents of Suanmark and Namsuan villages to learn about the water problem.\u00a0Some 70.5 hectares of upland fields owned by 110 families in Suanmark village lack sufficient water, as do 38.4 hectares of land\u00a0used to grow chillies.\u00a0And in Namsuan village, 31.9 hectares of farmland do\u00a0not have\u00a0enough water. Upland cultivation by 877 families in 17 villages of Phoukhoun district has been slowed on an area of 478.7 hectares due to the onset of the dry season.\u00a0Mr Viengthong urged local authorities to seek solutions and to help villagers to grow dry season crops to replace rice lost during excessive\u00a0rainfall in the wet season.<\/p>\n<p>Information source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vientianetimes.org.la\/sub-new\/VTTimes_PDF\/234cd2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vientiane Times<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","format":"standard","news-type":[131],"class_list":["post-9932","news-post","type-news-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","news-type-news"],"acf":{"pkl_story_headline":"Upland cultivation on 478.7 hectares of land in Phoukhoun district, Luang Prabang province, is suffering from a lack of water","pkl_story_authors":"","pkl_story_image":9934,"pkl_story_video":"","pkl_story_image_credits":"http:\/\/www.asianews.it","pkl_story_file":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-post\/9932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news-post"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=9932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}