The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has distributed agricultural inputs on behalf of the federal government to no fewer than 2,463 farmers in Ogun State, as a result of [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 24-Sep-2021

The Federation of Agricultural Commodity Associations of Nigeria (FACAN), Edo State Chapter, has distributed 150,000 free cashew seedlings to farmers in Edo State. Over 3000 hectar [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: N/A

Date: 24-Sep-2021

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that with increased investments in the agriculture sector, particularly in the areas of infrastructure, Nigeria can produce more food. The Presi [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: N/A

Date: 24-Sep-2021

Yam farmers in Benue State are excited over bumper harvest across most locations in the 23 local government areas of the state, this season. However, despite the bountiful harvest [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 24-Sep-2021

As farmers across the country begin harvest, various farm produce have started flooding the markets, with slight effects on their prices. A visit to the popular Dawanau grain mark [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 24-Sep-2021

ENE OKWANIHE, ABUJA The Nigerian government says it is committed to providing incentives and needed support to feed millers and agribusiness companies in the country to ameliorat [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 24-Sep-2021

[Egypt Online] Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli asserted that President Abdel Fattah El Sisi offers unlimited support for the strategy of localizing auto industry. [...]

Country: Egypt

Region: Africa

Date: 24-Sep-2021

Abuja -- The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Muhammed Abubakar, yesterday said the federal government is currently working to provide incentives to feed millers [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 24-Sep-2021

[Daily News] Tanzania Prison Services (TPS) has singled out an ambitious plan to intensify irrigation farming by using modern equipment in its various prisons in efforts to feed pr [...]

Country: Tanzania

Region: Africa

Date: 24-Sep-2021

[Daily News] CASHEW farmers in Lindi and Mtwara regions have warmly welcomed the ' Vuna zaidi na NBC Shambani' campaign run by NBC Bank in the regions, noting that the product has [...]

Country: Tanzania

Region: Africa

Date: 24-Sep-2021

[The Herald] Zimbabwe is set to benefit from a US$6,9 million project which was launched recently to combat animal trypanosomiasis, a parasitic disease transmitted by biting flies [...]

Country: Zimbabwe

Region: Africa

Date: 24-Sep-2021

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has signed an agreement for a US$1.5 billion syndicated loan facility for the 2021/2022 cocoa crop season to be used to finance cocoa purchases and [...]

Country: Ghana

Region: N/A

Date: 23-Sep-2021

The first tranche of the $1.5 billion Cocoa Syndicated Loan will hit the accounts of the Bank of Ghana by the first week of October, 2021, the Deputy Chief Executive in charge of F [...]

Country: Ghana

Region: Africa

Date: 23-Sep-2021

Ghana will soon have a fertiliser manufacturing plant to produce fertilisers locally, to meet the rising demand of farmers, Head of Results Delivery at the Office of the President, [...]

Country: Ghana

Region: Africa

Date: 23-Sep-2021

The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL Plc) said it has trained about 780 farmers on modern, business-oriented pre-upstream, upstream, mid [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 23-Sep-2021

NIGERIAN Stored Products Research Institute (NSPRI) Kwara state has flagged off the distribution of improved storage facilities for vulnerable rural women and youth in 19 selected [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 23-Sep-2021

It has been lamented that the spate of insecurity in Nigeria is negatively affecting the agricultural sector as farmers particularly peasants who form the majority of the farmers a [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 23-Sep-2021

AS part of its technical support to Nigeria to curb emerging animal diseases, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), through the Emergency Center for Tr [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 23-Sep-2021

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Region: N/A

Date: 20-Sep-2021

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Country: Zimbabwe

Region: Africa

Date: 20-Sep-2021

A marriage between aquaculture (raising aquatic animals such as fish, snails or prawns in tanks) and hydroponics (cultivating plants in water), aquaponics is [...]

Country: Kenya

Region: Africa

Date: 19-Sep-2021

For the unsuspecting farmer, the Desert Locust is a formidable enemy. These wretched pests have a voracious appetite, multiply rapidly and travel up to 150 [...]

Country: Kenya

Region: Africa

Date: 19-Sep-2021

Last month, the CGIAR Excellence in Breeding (EiB) platform handed over digitization equipment to the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization [...]

Country: Kenya

Region: Africa

Date: 19-Sep-2021

The Kenya National Biosafety Authority (NBA) has approved environmental release of genetically modified (GM) cassava event 4046, resistant to cassava brown [...]

Country: Kenya

Region: Africa

Date: 19-Sep-2021

The Ministry of Agriculture through Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) has produced potato varieties with a longer shelf life. The [...]

Country: Kenya

Region: Africa

Date: 19-Sep-2021