The Italian company Celli presents new multi-purpose solutions for soil cultivation in Africa
The
Italian company, leader for over 60 years in the agricultural mechanization
sector, offers a wide range of bedformers, rotary tillers, power harrows...
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...
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...
AfDB’s TAAT program targets 40m farmers across Africa in the next five years
The African Development Bank (AfDB)-funded Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation program (TAAT) is set to reach 40m farmers across Africa in the...
ITFC: Africa’s Trade Solutions Championing Partner in Agricultural Development
General Manager for Trade and Development, Nasser M. Al-Thekair. Mr. Al-Thekair
The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation...
Ethiopia deploys helicopters to spray new swarms of desert locusts
Ethiopia has deployed helicopters to spray new swarms of desert locusts that are eating crops and threatening the country’s food security. The...
Nurse crops – The contribution to sustainable and environmentally friendly agriculture
The positive effects of catch crops and nurse crops to the soil structure, the soil organism and the nutrient balance, as well...
World Bank disburses US$ 14m for coffee revitalization plan in Kenya
The World Bank is set to fund a US$ 14m concessional
loan for a coffee revitalization plan in Kenya. The Ministry of Agriculture...
Impending locust invasion threatens wanting food security situation in East Africa
IThe Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has
issued a warning about an impending locust invasion-second of its kind in East
Africa since the year...