Goodwell invests EUR 150 million in SOUK Farms to scale sustainable agricultural production in...
Goodwell Investments, an impact investing firm fostering inclusive growth in emerging markets has announced its investment in SOUK Farms, a leading grower and exporter...
Tanzania outlines policy changes to transform agriculture
The government of Tanzania has outlined its agricultural transformation agenda, detailing its desire to see commercial banks’ lending rate to the sector – which...
Rising interest rates and wetness place a dampener on a potentially excellent agriculture season
After a bullish start to the 2021/22 agriculture season with prospects of another excellent season despite cost pressures, the sector faces a further challenge...
IFAD-continues to help preserve Amazonian forest in Brazil’s poorest state
The UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Government of the State of Maranhão signed a financing agreement today for the implementation...
Breakthrough Foliar Biopesticide Targets Fire Blight In Pome Fruit Trees
After four years of research and an investment of 3.9 million euros, the partners of the Horizon 2020 project Phagefire, funded by the European...
New support scheme for farmers in Mali begins this week
The Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) will pay financial aid to farmers in Mali under the income guarantee scheme starting tomorrow on...
Smuggled produce dampen farmers
Nqobile Bhebhe,Bulawayo
FARMERS in Zimbabwe could easily lose interest in onion and apple growing due to continued influx of smuggled produce mainly from neighbouring South...
Zimbabwe farmers earn US $4.6m from tobacco sales
Zimbabwean farmers have earned US $4.6m from tobacco sales. The growers have reportedly sold 2.6m kgs at the auction and contract floors. Moreover, according...
Zimbabwe in the dark on land usage
Nqobile Bhebhe
ZIMBABWE has no consolidated data base on land allocated to 'new farmers' under the fast track land distribution and its current utilisation capacity, a...
How Should We Measure Farmers’ Economic Success?
"You will always focus on what you measure, so carefully consider what it is that you wish to measure.”
By: Dr. Nimrod Israely
When I look...