{"id":2,"date":"2013-11-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/soil\/getting-started\/"},"modified":"2024-10-23T23:33:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T20:33:02","slug":"getting-started","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/soil\/getting-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Department of Soil and Geological Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/soil\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pedology-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"pedology\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/soil\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pedology-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/soil\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pedology-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/soil\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pedology-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/soil\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pedology-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/soil\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pedology-1500x1000.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/soil\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pedology.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Department of Soil and Geological \u00a0Sciences (DSGS) is a under the college\u00a0of Agriculture (CoA) of the Sokoine University of Agriculture. The DSGS has the main obligation of providing training to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, consultancy and advisory services to government departments, farmers, private firms and NGOs on matters related to Soil and Geological Sciences. The DSGS has well trained <a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/soil\/academic-staff\/\"><strong>academic professionals<\/strong><\/a>, 13 with PhDs and 4 with MSc. and 2 BSc. degrees. There are eleven qualified and competent <a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/soil\/technical-staff\/\"><strong>technical personnel<\/strong><\/a> in the department who run a modern Soil Science laboratory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Soil and Geological \u00a0Sciences (DSGS) is a under the college\u00a0of Agriculture (CoA) of the Sokoine University of Agriculture. The DSGS has the main obligation of providing training to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, consultancy and advisory services to government departments, farmers, private firms and NGOs on matters related to Soil and Geological [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/soil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/soil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/soil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/soil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/soil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/soil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3223,"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/soil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/3223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/soil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/soil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}