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FG, IFAD score Ogun VCDP-AF implementation high
Tribune OnlineFG, IFAD score Ogun VCDP-AF implementation high OGUN State Government has received commendation for the utilisation of the mechanised advantage under the Federal G [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 05-Oct-2021
Ondo govt appreciates NEMA for distributing agricultual inputs to farmers affected by flood
Tribune OnlineOndo govt appreciates NEMA for distributing agricultual inputs to farmers affected by flood THE National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has distributed inputs [...]
Agricultural Tools/Equipments AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 05-Oct-2021
Country: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 05-Oct-2021
7,000 farmers Benefit From CBN Anchor Borrowers In Ogun
The Ogun State government says over 7,000 youths have so far been empowered by the Central Bank’s Anchor Borrowers’ agricultural programme through the Cassava Intervention Proj [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 05-Oct-2021
Refugee Commission launches Project Zero Hunger
Rahila Lassa, Abuja The National Commission for Refugees Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria has taken a step further to alleviate the level of hunger amongst t [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 04-Oct-2021
Jigawa Farmers Struggle To Survive Long Dry Spell
In recent years, farmers in Nigeria have witnessed low and unpredictable rainfall variations. This, coupled with other agronomic challenges, has posed serious problems to the co [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 04-Oct-2021
OFAB To Crash Price Of Beans In 2022
The Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology in Nigeria (OFAB) has assured Nigerians that by the 2022 farming season, the prices of food crops, especially beans, will crash. Speak [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 04-Oct-2021
NCPB Staring At Empty Warehousing Space With No Grain to Handle
Smallholder farmers in Kenya are yet to embrace the Warehouse Receipt System more than one year after it was unveiled. [...]
Country: Kenya
Region: Africa
Date: 04-Oct-2021
Tomato Industry In Limbo As FG, CBN Interventions Fail
In 2017, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) announced a new National Tomato Policy. FEC also increased the import duty from 5 to 50 per cent, which was meant to encourage processo [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 01-Oct-2021
Price Of Soya Beans May Rise Further, Farmers Warn
The Soya Beans Farmers Association of Nigeria (SOFAN) has raised an alarm that the activities of bandits across the country, especially in the North West, have prevented their memb [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 01-Oct-2021
FAO seeks urgent restoration of Africa’s degraded landscape
The first-ever stocktake of Africa’s forests and landscapes released on Wednesday, September 29, 2021 finds slow progress in repairing Africa’s degraded lands, urging effo [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 01-Oct-2021
Agriculture is key to Diversification- Nigeria’s President
The Nigerian government says as it endeavors to revamp the economy through its diversification plan, the agricultural sector remains the most viable tool it has. President Muhamma [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 01-Oct-2021
Fairtrade Cocoa Programme delivers strong results in West Africa – Study reveals
An evaluation of the outcomes of Fairtrade’s West Africa Cocoa Programme has found stronger cooperatives among participating producers. Small-scale cocoa producer organiza [...]
Country: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 01-Oct-2021
Federation of African Engineers to hold 7th African Engineering Week & 5th Conference in Ghana
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Country: Ghana
Region: N/A
Date: 01-Oct-2021
BOPP attributes half-year growth to bullish world market prices, high crop productivity
Benso Oil Palm Plantation PLC is attributing its half-year growth of 63% to the bullish world market crude palm oil prices coupled with the higher crop productivity from both the n [...]
Country: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 01-Oct-2021
Kumasi International Airport is 77% complete; set to be completed in June 2022
President Nana Akufo-Addo has inspected ongoing work on the construction of the Kumasi International Airport, which, according to the contractor, is currently 77% complete, and is [...]
Infrastructure and Construction AirportsCountry: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 01-Oct-2021
Ghana maintains Cocoa Producer Price at ¢660 per bag for 2021/2022 season.
Government has maintained the Cocoa Producer Price of ¢10,560 per metric ton for the new cocoa crop season which takes effect from October 8 2021. This translates into ¢66 [...]
AgricultureCountry: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 01-Oct-2021
Africa: New FAO Report Highlights Urgent Need to Restore Africa's Degraded Landscape
[New Dawn] The first-ever stocktake of Africa's forests and landscapes, which was released on Wednesday finds slow progress in repairing Africa's degraded lands and urges ramped up [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 01-Oct-2021
Subsidy Improves Omusati Food Production
[New Era] The ministry of agriculture, water and land reform said financial subsidies availed to farmers in Omusati region have improved the farmers' production capacity and quanti [...]
AgricultureCountry: Namibia
Region: Africa
Date: 01-Oct-2021
Soil Enrichment Programme Launched in Uzumba
[The Herald] The Uzumba Soil Enrichment Agricultural Show (UDSEAS) officially launched a soil neutralisation and enrichment mixture programme at Zvauya Village in Ward 11, on Frida [...]
Country: Zimbabwe
Region: Africa
Date: 01-Oct-2021
Zimbabwe: President Mnangagwa Opens Agricultural Show
[The Herald] GOVERNMENT will continue supporting the Agriculture Sector as it is key not only to food security but the realisation of Vision 2030 to be an upper-middle-class econom [...]
AgricultureCountry: Zimbabwe
Region: Africa
Date: 01-Oct-2021
South Africa: South African Restaurants and Vineyards Are Among the Top 100 in the World
[Daily Maverick] A mere three years since opening, FYN in Cape Town has cracked a new place in the World's 50 Best Restaurants 100 to 51 list. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 01-Oct-2021
IFAD commends Kogi Agricultural Value-Chain Development Programme implementation
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has commended Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi State for the progress it’s made in its Agricultural Value Chain Develo [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 27-Sep-2021
NALDA commission’s second integrated Farm
Ene Okwanihe, Abuja The President of Nigerian Senate, Senator Ahmed Lawan has commissioned the National Agricultural Land Development Authority’s (NALDA) second integrated [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 27-Sep-2021
Preserving biodiversity: Effective, lasting solutions based on science and innovation
The agri-food sector is a key player in the management of biodiversity as well as its custodian, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said in his opening remarks at the 18th Regular Sess [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 27-Sep-2021