FES- the ideal service partner for your agricultural needs
Farming and Engineering Services (FES) has well over 50 years’ experience in providing agricultural solutions. Their services are backed by world-class brands,...
Coffee in the time of COVID-19
The COVID-19 effects are continuously being felt across the globe, with most of the countries under lockdown to reduce the spread of...
Government body buys rice worth US $2.8m from farmers in Mwea, Kenya
The Kenya National Trading Corporation (KNTC) has bought rice worth US $2.8m from farmers in Mwea, Kirinyaga County, following the presidential directive...
IFAD supports projects that increase agricultural productivity and incomes in Madagascar
Rural
development projects financed and supported by the International Fund for
Agricultural Development (IFAD) have helped to reduce rural poverty and
increase rural entrepreneurship in...
Njala University Sierra Leone signs US $191m MoU with AVDP for oil palm project
Njala University Sierra
Leone has signed a US $ 191m Memorandum of Understanding with the Agriculture
Value Chain Development Project (AVDP) to implement an...
Kenyan government launchers potato seed multiplication program to address shortages
The government of Kenya has launched a potato seed multiplication program in six counties to address seed shortages that occur perennially. The...
Canna-Q seeks international partnerships
Canna-Q headquarters
Canna-Q, a transformative Lesotho-based medicinal cannabis project is seeking strategic partners in Europe and...
Retool annual budgets toward agriculture production and expand food reserves, as COVID-19 exacerbates food...
African countries need to urgently expand food reserves, keep food supply flowing and boost their agriculture budgets to avert a possible hunger...
Food Security: €188m African Development Bank loan to boost COVID-19 response
The loan will extend
additional resources to Kenya as the country takes steps to contain the spread
of the pandemic and deal with...
Another relief for the agriculture sector after a 50 basis points cut in the...
Comment by Paul Makube, Senior Agricultural economist at
FNB Agri-Business
South Africa : A combination of favourable crude oil price...