[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said Tuesday it has provided a loan of 49 million euros (about 160 million dinar [...]

Country: Tunisia

Region: Africa

Date: 08-Dec-2021

As part of the fight against the recruitment of children into armed groups, several small children aged between 8 and 12 are encouraged to invest their efforts in agricultural acti [...]

Country: DR Congo

Region: Africa

Date: 08-Dec-2021

Tribune OnlineFirm tasks farmers to embrace use of combined harvesters to avert food losses Wheat and rice farmers in Nigeria have been urged to embrace the use of combined harv [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

Tribune OnlineNegligence of plant health undermines food security, cripples export ― Minister  The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammad Abubakar has sai [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

Tribune OnlineUS firm to establish cashew, cocoa processing industry in Ekiti community A leading United States agricultural investor, Assess farms international, has concluded [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

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