{"id":6483,"date":"2022-12-07T09:46:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T04:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6483"},"modified":"2025-03-27T15:08:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T09:38:45","slug":"world-soil-day-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/world-soil-day-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"World Soil Day Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About World Soil Day:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It aims to highlight the value of healthy soil and to promote the sustainable management of soil resources.<\/li>\n<li>In 2014, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) declared December 5 as \u2018World Soil Day\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>The day was chosen as it coincides with the birthday of Thailand\u2019s king, HM King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who led the programme and made it happen.<\/li>\n<li>Theme: &#8220;Soils: Where food begins&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is FAO?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is a specialised agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger to achieve food security for all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>Economic Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Soil day is observed to highlight the value of healthy soil &#038; promote sustainable management of soil resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}