The Nigerian government says plans are on the way to establish six plant clinics across the six geo-political zones in the country to mitigate against food losses caused by pest. [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

[Daily Maverick] Hard times on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast have seen people turn to an unusual, wild harvest to make ends meet, but there are environmental concerns. [...]

Country: South Africa

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

[Namibian] CROP FARMING IS an agricultural activity that involves the tilling or cultivation of land to ensure its preparedness before a farmer decides to grow plants that will lat [...]

Country: Namibia

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- BRAC Liberia has begun the Liberia Food Security and Rural Capacity-Building Project. The initiative that is expected to target new smallholder farmer [...]

Country: Liberia

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

[New Era] Disease can have various causes. Some of these causes are germs such as bacteria, viruses and fungi. The following is a list of situations that could result in sheep/goat [...]

Country: Namibia

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

Tribune OnlineFAO, experts raise concern over soil salinisation as threat to global food security AS Nigeria joins the rest of the world to commemorate the 2021 World Soil Day, [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

Tribune OnlineFrench govt trains 300 women in Oyo, Kaduna on agro-processing THE Head of the Capacity Development Office of Support Women Entrepreneurship in the Agrifood Sector [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

Tribune Online$25.5 million yam seedling project records progress at IITA THE International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Yam Improvement for Income and Food Securit [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

Tribune Online‘Agri-prenuership better alternative to white-collar jobs’ SENATOR representing Oyo South Senatorial District in the upper chamber of the National Assembly, Se [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

Tribune Online‘Cocoa farmers lose N55bn annually’ THE National President of Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria (CFAN) Comrade Adeola Adegoke has said that Nigerian Cocoa F [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

Tribune Online‘Why I recommended GIZ/IITA-developed cassava seedling to my co-farmers’ A woman farmer, Mrs Dorcas Alamu, has said that the reason she recommended the GIZ/IIT [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

Tribune OnlineKano govt, NIAS partner on animal feed production THE Kano State Agro-Pastoral Development Project (KSADP) has signed an agreement with the Nigerian Institute of A [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has decried the increasing levels of soil salinisation and degradation, saying are a threat to global food security. [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

Nigeria Institute of Soil Science (NISS) has said soil acidity, low-average soil nutrient, indiscriminate bush burning, floods and soil erosion were the major factors limiting the [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

Ene Okwanihe, Abuja The National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA)has disclosed plans to establish its Integrated Farm Estate for youth empowerment and a Vegetable M [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

NALDA Kick starts Dry Season Wheat Farm In Gombe State Ene Okwanihe, Abuja In line with ongoing efforts to continuously reduce the rate of youth unemployment in Nigeria through m [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Ministry of Education last week announced its decision to close all secondary schools so students can harvest crops for those on the frontline o [...]

Country: Ethiopia

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The United Nations World Food Programme said in a statement that its ability to meet the critical food and nutrition needs of millions of people in [...]

Country: Ethiopia

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

[New Dawn] NAIROBI, Kenya, 6 December 2021- /African Media Agency (AMA) /- The Kerry Group has expanded its footprint in Africa following its acquisition of Rwanda-based Afribon. T [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

[Vanguard] The Minister of Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammed Abubakar, has said that Nigeria is losing high volume of its annual farm produce to da [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

Tribune OnlineInuwa flags off 2021 dry season wheat production Gombe State Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has said that his administration will continue to partner with the Fe [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Dec-2021

[WFP] A rural women's initiative, backed by the World Food Programme and its partners, is empowering smallholder farmers [...]

Country: Rwanda

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Dec-2021

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Pate Island -- Coastal communities rely on mangroves to provide habitats for fish and protect their homes from flooding - and giving financial incentiv [...]

Country: Kenya

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Dec-2021

A senior academic at the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Rivers State University and the University of the State of the African Diaspora (USOAD), Dr Ikechi Agbugb [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Dec-2021

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has predicted that Nigeria and other low-income and food-deficit countries would experience a decline in crop production [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Dec-2021