{"id":574,"date":"2009-10-22T22:58:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T22:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/2009\/10\/22\/chester-encourages-women-farmers-to-apply-for-grants\/"},"modified":"2009-10-22T22:58:38","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T22:58:38","slug":"chester-encourages-women-farmers-to-apply-for-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/chester-encourages-women-farmers-to-apply-for-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"CHESTER ENCOURAGES WOMEN FARMERS TO APPLY FOR GRANTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>October 23, 2009<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Funding is available to host events across Gippsland that will encourage more women to pursue careers in primary industries.<\/p>\n<p>The Nationals Member for Gippsland Darren Chester encouraged local organisations and women working in primary industries to apply for funding to hold events that will promote leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProviding networks for local farmers to share and build on their knowledge will eventually lead to better achievements and more efficient businesses,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope women working in the local primary industry sector will take advantage of the \u2018Recognising Women Farmers Grants\u2019 to encourage other women to consider a career in the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The grants are available to:<\/p>\n<p>* Build and share knowledge and experience.<br \/>*\u00a0Increase access to planning tools and resources.<br \/>* Develop leadership and management skills.<br \/>* Develop programs to increase participation in agriculture, fisheries and forestry industries.<br \/>* Develop skills to contribute more effectively to government and industry decision making.<br \/>* Build networks among rural, regional and remote Australians.<\/p>\n<p>Further information is available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daff.gov.au\/climatechange\/australias-farming-future\/community_networks_and_capacity_building\/recognising_women_farmers\">http:\/\/www.daff.gov.au\/climatechange\/australias-farming-future\/community_networks_and_capacity_building\/recognising_women_farmers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>October 23, 2009<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Funding is available to host events across Gippsland that will encourage more women to pursue careers in primary industries.<\/p>\n<p>The Nationals Member for Gippsland Darren Chester encouraged local organisations and women working in primary industries to apply for funding to hold events that will promote leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProviding networks for local farmers to share and build on their knowledge will eventually lead to better achievements and more efficient businesses,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}