Farmers, investors and various governments have been urged to encourage and deepen coconut production and value chain to make the country richer by not less than N20 billion yearly [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 15-Dec-2021

[The Herald] Farmers have been assured by the Veterinary Department that it has adequate dipping chemicals in stock but urged cautious use to reduce livestock mortality due to tick [...]

Country: Zimbabwe

Region: Africa

Date: 15-Dec-2021

[Daily News] THE Tanzania Coffee Research Institute (TACRI) Deputy National Chairman, Mr Andrew Kakama has appealed for government intervention to enable coffee farmers in the coun [...]

Country: Tanzania

Region: Africa

Date: 15-Dec-2021

[IPS] Bulawayo -- Food spoilage forced smallholder farmers out of pocket and out of business - until an entrepreneur came up with a cool idea. [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 15-Dec-2021

More than one hundred thousand cocoa seedlings has been released to revamp the moribund cocoa estates in the southern district of Cross River State, south-south Nigeria. The Speci [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 14-Dec-2021

Tribune Online‘Farmers radio will bridge knowledge gap’ THE management of Bellefu Digital Agro Connect, owners of Bellefu.com, has said the establishment of the Bellefu onli [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 14-Dec-2021

Tribune Online‘Why I’m glad I became a cassava seed entrepreneur’ SIGNS that more cassava farmers in Oyo State will adopt improved varieties in the new planting season hav [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 14-Dec-2021

Tribune OnlineNigeria yet to explore industrial potential of yam —Prof Otegbayo PROFESSOR of Food Science and Technology from Bowen University, Osun  State, Iwo,  Mrs  Bol [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 14-Dec-2021

Tribune OnlineInside FAO-funded NLTP that keeps herders, farmers in same place The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) alongside the Nigerian Government is im [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 14-Dec-2021

The cashew sector is increasingly becoming one of the most important agricultural sectors in Ghana. The sector has grown into one that contributes significantly to economic growth, [...]

Country: Ghana

Region: Africa

Date: 14-Dec-2021

  The Trade Office of the High Commission of Malaysia in Nigeria, the Nigeria-Malaysia Business Council and the Plantation Owners Forum of Nigeria (POFON), among other industry s [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 14-Dec-2021

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Nigerian Government commenced the implementation of pilot National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP), an initi [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 14-Dec-2021

The Nigerian Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, has promised to do more for the youths in modern and sustainable agricultural practices. The FCT Secretary, Agricultur [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 14-Dec-2021

[Ethiopian Herald] Urban farming is becoming both a fashion and an additional investment for urban dwellers in addition to their normal business in Ethiopia. Urban agriculture is i [...]

Country: Ethiopia

Region: Africa

Date: 14-Dec-2021

[FAO] How communities are bringing fish back to one of Malawi's lakes [...]

Country: Malawi

Region: Africa

Date: 14-Dec-2021

Tribune OnlineLagos generates over N1bn from agriculture in 2021 ― Commissioner Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture said it generated over N1billion as Internally Generated Re [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 13-Dec-2021

The National Charcoal Producers, Dealers and Exporters Association of Nigeria, (NACPDEAN), has announced that it is embarking on a massive reforestation project to ensure that the [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 13-Dec-2021

One month after closure of Tiga Dam, dry season farmers in about six local government areas of Kano State have lamented how their sources of livelihood have been hampered. The far [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 13-Dec-2021

[Citizen] Tanzania is now working closely with Uganda to study best practices that will help boost production of edible oil seeds going by Kampala's success in producing palm oil. [...]

Country: Tanzania

Region: Africa

Date: 13-Dec-2021

[Citizen] Unguja -- Despite a huge potential in the spices business worldwide, the crop's value chain faces numerous challenges ranging from farmers, processors and transporters. [...]

Country: Tanzania

Region: Africa

Date: 13-Dec-2021

[African Arguments] While there's an urgent need to improve productivity, emphasis should be laid on ridding the food systems of inequality. [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 11-Dec-2021

The Acting Governor of Kaduna State, Hadiza Balarabe has identified food insecurity as a global problem threatening the security and social wellbeing of many societies.   She st [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 09-Dec-2021

Wheat and rice farmers in Nigeria have been urged to embrace the use of combined harvesters to avoid in-harvest food losses amid insufficient production. Combined harvesters are a [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 09-Dec-2021

The Lagos Commodities and Futures Exchange (LCFE)  announced a partnership with Heritage Bank to create a structure for trading on wheat contracts and its allied products. The Ma [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 09-Dec-2021

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has called for the adoption of climate-smart agriculture to improve crop yields in Small Island Developing States [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 09-Dec-2021