Agro Boye/Trade Hub Partnership to Increase Production of Key Crops in Senegal, Support Food...
Through a $1.1 million co-investment grant from the USAID-funded West Africa Trade & Investment Hub (Trade Hub), Senegal-based agribusiness firm Agro Boye will increase...
USA invest US $2M in Ghana’s poultry sector
The United States Department of Agriculture has invested about US $2million in the Ghana’s poultry sector.According to Technical Lead of the project, Raymond Denteh,...
COCOBO, Ghana inks US $1.5bn syndicated loan agreement
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has signed a US$1.5 billion syndicated loan agreement with a consortium of international and local financial institutions for the...
South Korea to provide aid to farmers in Central Mozambique
The government of South Korea is set to aid smallholder farmers in the central Mozambican province of Sofala.Through its Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA),...
Contract tobacco farmers in Zimbabwe decries drowning in debt
Contract tobacco farmers in Zimbabwe are decrying drowning in debt. More than 20,000 farmers in Zimbabwe grow tobacco for Tian Ze, a subsidiary of...
Finding alternative sources for agricultural financing
Agricultural financing remains one of the toughest challenges for farmers in South Africa after the collapse of Landbank. While most people will remember 2020...
Namibia’s Agribank to assist women and youth
In its quest to assist women and youth in Agriculture in Namibia, Agribank disbursed loans to the value of N$43 million towards women, while...
Releaf secures $4.2 million in seed funding and grants to drive industrialisation of food...
New funding will support the development and scaling of technology solutions for Nigeria’s Oil Palm sector
Lagos, Nigeria. Releaf, an agtech start-up that develops proprietary hardware...
Small scale farmers in Kenya facing financial starvation
AFEX Chief Executive Ayodeji Balogun has announced that small scale agricultural sector in Kenya is the least funded sector despite it being the largest employer...
Kenya proposes Sh 670M budget to mitigate drought
Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture’s has proposed a Sh 670million budget to the Treasury for mitigating drought, adverse weather conditions experienced in the country’s arid...