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Govt Targets $18bn Annual Returns From Cassava Export
[This Day] The federal government has stated that when fully harnessed, Nigeria has the capacity to generate as much as $18 billion from the export of its estimated 45 million metr [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 18-Oct-2021
Africa: Continent Is the Key to Ending Harmful Use of Polluting Fuels in the Home
[The Conversation Africa] In wealthy countries, most people can barely imagine using anything other than electricity or gas to cook in their homes. But billions of people around th [...]
Energy/Power Waste managementCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 18-Oct-2021
ADB disburses ¢100 million to 17 companies to promote 1D1F
The Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) has so far disbursed in excess of over a GH¢ 100 million to 17 companies under the ‘One District One Factory’(1D1F) initiative in the a [...]
AgricultureCountry: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 17-Oct-2021
SMEs in Ashanti region equipped with skills for business development
Selected Small and Medium-scale Entrepreneurs in the Ashanti region have been equipped with skills to help expand their businesses. Ten SMEs entrepreneurs benefitted from [...]
Country: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 17-Oct-2021
Nigeria’s agric spending plan highest in four years but still far below AU benchmark
The Nigerian government is proposing just 1.8 per cent of the 2022 budget for agriculture, significantly short of the Maputo Declaration benchmark. The post Nigeria’s agric spen [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Oct-2021
NPA must check foreign invasion in downstream sector – Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors
The Ghana Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors (CBOD) is unimpressed by what it believes in an invasion of the petroleum resource sector by foreigners. According to the Chamber, [...]
Country: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Oct-2021
Ghana’s livelihood-sustaining shea trees threatened by logging, climate change
For seven years, Nafisah Wahab and Nuriya Zubaida worked in Ghana’s capital city, Accra, as head porters – carrying luggage to fend for themselves. But they returned ho [...]
Country: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Oct-2021
MTN Ghana Foundation supports liberated Trokosi girls with startups and seed capital
MTN Ghana Foundation has supported girls liberated from Trokosi shrines in parts of the Volta Region and given vocational skill training at Baptist Vocational Training Institute. [...]
Country: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Oct-2021
313 Farmers Receive 30,000 Mango, Oil Palm Seedlings From Assembly
[Ghanaian Times] Asesewa -- Some 30,000 mango and oil palm seedlingshave been distributed to 313 crop farmers at Asesewa in the Upper ManyaKrobo District of the Eastern Region. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Oct-2021
Nigeria needs water, sanitation fund – CSO
A civil society organisation (CSO), the Society for Water and Sanitation (NEWSAN), has called for implementation of a national fund targeted at programmes and projects to improve t [...]
Water/SanitationCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Oct-2021
Nasarawa state government inaugurates N-CARES program to support farmers
Amina Mohammed, Lafia Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule has inaugurated the Nigeria COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (N-CARES) program to support 450 farmers in [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Oct-2021
Kwara Govt Trains Fisheries Officers On Aquaculture Technology and Business
Tunde Akanbi, Ilorin The Kwara State Government has identified training and retraining of Civil Servants as catalyst for effective service delivery in the Civil Service syst [...]
Agricultural Tools/Equipments AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Oct-2021
FCTA allays fears of prolonged water scarcity in Abuja
Hudu Yakubu Abuja Authority of the Nigerian Federal Capital Territory ( FCT) Water Board has allayed fears of possible prolonged water scarcity, following its earlier anno [...]
Water/SanitationCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Oct-2021
Food Security: Buffer Stock calls for commitment of stakeholders
The National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) has called for a renewed commitment among stakeholders towards the attainment of food security in the country as Ghana joins the rest [...]
Country: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Oct-2021
Newmont Golden Ridge Ltd pays ¢110m dividend to government
Newmont Golden Ridge Ltd. (Akyem Mine) has paid dividend of over GH¢110m to the government of Ghana for the year 2021 in respect of its carried interest in the company. Th [...]
FinancialCountry: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Oct-2021
GFIM: Stanbic maintains position as bank with biggest investments
Stanbic Bank maintained its position as the bank with the biggest investments on the Ghana Stock Exchange Fixed Income Market in the month of October 2021, despite its controlling [...]
FinancialCountry: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Oct-2021
TBs Withdraws Ceres' Apple Juice From the Market
[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -- Tanzania's Bureau of Standards has announced the withdrawal of Ceres 100% Apple Juice manufactured by South African food and beverage manufacturer Pionee [...]
Country: Tanzania
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Oct-2021
Severe Droughts and Veld Fires Set Up Conditions for Food Price Increases #AfricaClimateCrisis
[Daily Maverick] Parts of South Africa's agricultural production areas are severely affected by climate crisis-related droughts and veld fires. Agri South Africa says that if the s [...]
Country: South Africa
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Oct-2021
Pandemic's Economic Impact Drives Some to Illegal Fishing
[VOA] Naivasha -- Seremiah Oloo is someone who has relied on Kenya's Lake Naivasha for his livelihood as a fisherman for three decades. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Kenya
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Oct-2021
Aroab Farmers Demand Land
[New Era] Aroab -- Residents from the Aroab community, southeast of Keetmanshoop staged a peaceful demonstration earlier this week, in their quest to access land for both framing a [...]
AgricultureCountry: Namibia
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Oct-2021
NEMA distributes Agricultural materials in North-East
National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) under the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, has distributed agricultural input to farme [...]
Agricultural Tools/Equipments AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Oct-2021
Experts express worry over indiscriminate disposal of hazardous chemicals
Experts in environment sector has condemned the indiscriminate use of hazardous chemicals and dumping of waste in environment across the country. The experts made the call whi [...]
Waste management ChemicalsCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Oct-2021
World Food Day: Agric Ministry Provides Farm Inputs to displaced farmers
As part of the activities to mark this year’s World Food Day, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has trained 100 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) at New [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Oct-2021
Post-Harvest Storage Facilities: NSPRI empowers farmers in 5 states
Nigerian Stored Products Research Institute (NSPRI) has commenced distribution of agricultural storage facilities and COVID-19 palliative to five states of the federation. Speakin [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Oct-2021
Ceres Apple Juice Recalled in Seychelles After Toxic Fungus Is Found
[Seychelles News Agency] Apex hotel supplies in Seychelles is asking anyone who bought Ceres 100% Apple Juice to return the product to the company for a refund after a notice that [...]
Country: Seychelles
Region: Africa
Date: 14-Oct-2021