The Silo
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The Silo is a fortnightly agricultural newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

 printed and distributed in Lesotho
Lesotho
Lesotho , officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country and enclave, surrounded by the Republic of South Africa. It is just over in size with a population of approximately 2,067,000. Its capital and largest city is Maseru. Lesotho is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. The name...

. The paper mainly publishes environmental and agricultural news in and around the country.

In its 13 July 2011 issue, The Silo featured King Letsie III, presenting the interview as a special edition
Special edition
The terms special edition, limited edition and variants such as deluxe edition, collector's edition and others, are used as a marketing incentive for various kinds of products, originally published products related to the arts, such as books, prints or recorded music and films, but now including...

 for His Majesty's July birthday celebrations, a public holiday duly observed each year in Lesotho
Lesotho
Lesotho , officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country and enclave, surrounded by the Republic of South Africa. It is just over in size with a population of approximately 2,067,000. Its capital and largest city is Maseru. Lesotho is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. The name...

.

Being the only agricultural newspaper in the country, The Silo seems to follow foot-steps of their predecessors in neighboring South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

, Farmers Weekly
Farmers Weekly
Farmers Weekly is a magazine aimed at the British farming industry. It provides news; business features; a weekly digest of facts and figures about British, European and world agriculture; and Livestock, Arable and Machinery sections with reports on technical developments, farm sales and analysis...

, in that its content (like Farmers Weeklys) is restricted to farming, environmental and agricultural news only.
The Silo is a Canadian monthly cultural newspaper published in the municipalities of Haldimand and Norfolk Counties in Ontario, Canada. The Silo was founded in June 2010 and began printing and operating a website June 26, 2011, . The Silo deals with topics related to culture, technology, art and environment.
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