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Africa: 42 Million People Are At Famine's Door - and $6.6 Billion Could Save Them Now
[WFP] Cash would be used to provide a single meal a day for one year to stave off starvation [...]
AgricultureRegion: Africa
Date: 02-Nov-2021
TELA Maize Variety To Save Nigeria N268bn Spent Annually On Pesticides —Scientist https://tribuneonlineng.com/tela-maize-variety-to-save-nigeria-n268bn-spent-annually-on-pesticides-scientist/
THE Executive Director of Institute for Agricultural Research, Professor Mohammed Ishiyaku has said that the newly released TELA maize variety will save the country over N268 billi [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 02-Nov-2021
FAO Urges Policy Makers to Feed the World
The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu has tasked policymakers to find a way to feed the world and save the planet at [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 02-Nov-2021
Unknown Disease Ravages Tomatoes In Plateau
Tomato farmers in Plateau State have been counting losses as an unknown disease is destroying most of their crops. The situation, they said, was affecting their expected yields. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 02-Nov-2021
15.3 Hectares Of Polluted Ogoni Land Now Suitable For Farming – Minister
The Minister of Environment, Chief Sharon Ikeazor, has disclosed that over 15.13 hectares of hitherto polluted land in Ogoni area of Rivers State has been cleaned up and suitable f [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 02-Nov-2021
Ogun State launches Revised Agric Policy
The Ogun State Government in partnership with a German Cooperation (GIZ) has reviewed the state’s agricultural policy to achieve its goals of food security, job creation and indu [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 02-Nov-2021
Asantehene launches Entrepreneurship Challenge to address unemployment through start-up support
About ten thousand businesses and start-ups are up to benefit from a new initiative by the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, as a tool to rebuilding after Covid-19 through an authe [...]
Education/TrainingCountry: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 02-Nov-2021
Unbs Closes Maize Mills in Crackdown
[Monitor] Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has closed 49 maize milling factories over hygiene. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Uganda
Region: Africa
Date: 02-Nov-2021
Kenya Declared Locust-Free
[Nation] Agricultural experts have declared Kenya free of desert locusts, at least for now. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Kenya
Region: Africa
Date: 02-Nov-2021
New Maize Variety to Conserve N268 Million FX, Boost Production
[This Day] The Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR), Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, has said the newly released TELA maize variety would save the country N268 million i [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 01-Nov-2021
New Study Encourages Innovation in Small Livestock Farming to Maximise Profits
[New Times] The industry is said to be challenged with poor breeds, rampant disease outbreaks and high mortality rates. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Rwanda
Region: Africa
Date: 30-Oct-2021
Kenya: Banks Ordered to Unfreeze Dairy Farmers Accounts
[Nation] Six financial institutions were yesterday ordered by the High Court to unfreeze bank accounts belonging to 130, 000 Murang'a dairy farmers that had been frozen on the advi [...]
Country: Kenya
Region: Africa
Date: 30-Oct-2021
War Leaves Two Thirds of Sesame Farm Uncultivated
[Reporter] Over 500,000 hectares of sesame farm, which is 70 percent of Ethiopia's annual cultivation for the cash crop, skipped a season without being cultivated due to the ongoin [...]
AgricultureCountry: Ethiopia
Region: Africa
Date: 30-Oct-2021
Farmers call for promotion of organic agriculture
The Association of Organic Agriculture Practitioners of Nigeria, Ebonyi State Chapter, has called for the promotion of the organic agriculture system for better health benefits an [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 29-Oct-2021
Cross-River Basin Devt Authority to revolutionalise farming calendar
The Cross River Basin Development Authority has said its dry season farming programme is an attempt to revolutionaries the farming calendar for an all-year-round engagement of farm [...]
Agricultural Tools/Equipments AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 29-Oct-2021
Adopt organic agriculture system to minimise impact of climate change – Crop Services Director
Director of Crop Services Directorate at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), Seth Osei Akoto has urged local farmers to adopt an organic agriculture system to reduce the i [...]
AgricultureCountry: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 29-Oct-2021
Informal Food System 'Remains Overlooked and Unsupported' By Govt
[Daily Maverick] Food price inflation has been rising since lockdown started in March 2020; and while small-scale farmers, producers and traders could help bring it down, the secto [...]
AgricultureCountry: South Africa
Region: Africa
Date: 29-Oct-2021
Africa: How Climate Change Will Hit Small Farmers - And How Adaptation Helps #AfricaClimateCrisis
[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Rising temperatures and a decline in rainfall across eight Southern and East African countries are set to slash the production of important food crops in t [...]
AgricultureRegion: Africa
Date: 29-Oct-2021
Commodities exchange AFEX sees demand push grain prices higher next year
Prices of core grains are likely to touch higher levels in 2022 by virtue of surging demand pressures, commodities exchange AFEX said Tuesday, citing a widening gulf between buyer [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 28-Oct-2021
Research Institutes To Market Technologies, Innovations ― Sharubutu
The Executive Secretary of the Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria (ARCN), Professor Garba Sharubutu has said that the amended ARCN Act empowers the various agricultural Resea [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 28-Oct-2021
Oyo State Government holds Agribusiness Summit
By Olubunmi Osoteku, Ibadan The Oyo State Government, has, on Tuesday sold the state to the world by holding an agribusiness summit where the governor, Seyi Makinde, disclosed t [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 28-Oct-2021
ADB records 49.7% growth in profit to ¢90m in nine-months 2021
Ghana’s indigenous bank, Agricultural Development Bank continued its strong performance as it registered a 49.7% growth in profit to ¢90 million in the third-quarter of this yea [...]
Country: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 28-Oct-2021
WWF Programme Seeks to Reduce Cape Wine Farms' Strain On Floral Kingdom Biodiversity
[Daily Maverick] As a result of increased agricultural activity brought about by the expansion of the wine industry, the biodiversity of the floral kingdom is under threat in the C [...]
AgricultureCountry: South Africa
Region: Africa
Date: 28-Oct-2021
Tana Starts Distributing Livestock Relief Pellets to Herders
[Nation] Tana River County officials have started distributing livestock drought pellets targeting 1,224 households in drought-stricken villages. [...]
Country: Kenya
Region: Africa
Date: 28-Oct-2021
Locals Suffer as Fish Numbers in Turkwel Dam Dwindle
[Nation] More than 300,000 people in West Pokot County who depend on commercial fishing at the Turkwel dam are grappling with declining stocks. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Kenya
Region: Africa
Date: 28-Oct-2021