Lessons from Zimbabwe’s failed land reforms
By :William Gumede
Giving communal land to individual households, rather than mostly corrupt traditional overseers, will unlock real value, energy and entrepreneurship.
Zimbabwe's failed populist-based land...
Mulching
Mulching is the process of covering the soil surface around the plants in order to create favorable conditions for the crop growth. This may...
Rising temperatures will push millions of people in Africa into poverty and hunger unless...
Climate change has set our planet on fire, millions are already feeling the impactsThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report detailing progress...
Grain and seed cleaning and storage – why is it so important?
by Facet Engineering CEO, Colin Fairweather:
The quality of harvested grain and seed is dependent on a few important factors, these include: the settings and...
Intercropping as a sustainable farming method
Intercropping has been receiving little to no acknowledgment at all from scientists. This is despite its practice being around for centuries by millions of...
Kenyan maize farmers to get a bumper harvest of 46m bags of maize
The Kenyan maize farmers are looking forward for a bumper harvest of 46m bags this season. The Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri, revealed this...
NCPB facing difficulties in selling imported maize
The National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) is currently struggling to sell imported maize. The maize in question was imported under the subsidy program...
GDP shocker, and a further drop in agriculture output
Comment by Paul Makube, Senior Agricultural economist at FNB Agri-Business
South Africa : Following a stellar performance in 2017, South Africa’s agriculture output shrank by...
Farm irrigation during dry season
By Nita Karume :
It often goes without saying that the prices of agricultural produce in dry seasons are often much higher than produce in...
Polish Pavilion at Farm-Tech Expo Kenya to show how agri sector in Poland evolved...
“Poland and Kenya share a similar story, whereby Poland underwent a major agricultural transition period of mechanisation, optimisation and adapting new technologies to farming...