{"id":18402,"date":"2018-10-14T12:24:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T12:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18402"},"modified":"2018-10-14T12:24:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T12:24:10","slug":"australia-gives-drought-stricken-farms-billion-dollar-aid-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18402","title":{"rendered":"Australia gives drought-stricken farms billion-dollar aid package"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"67\">\n<p>The Australian government has announced a one-billion-dollar aid package for drought-stricken farmers.<\/p>\n<p>But economists are questioning whether the handout is better politics than economics &#8211; asking if it is worth it to grow crops and raise animals in an increasingly harsh climate.<\/p>\n<p>They also doubt whether all farmers entitled to payouts really need them.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Andrew Thomas reports from near Parkes in New South Wales, which has not seen decent rainfall in two years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian government has announced a one-billion-dollar aid package for drought-stricken farmers. But economists are questioning whether the handout is better politics than economics &#8211; asking if it is worth it to grow crops and raise animals in an increasingly harsh climate. They also doubt whether all farmers entitled to payouts really need them. Al&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}