SA wine industry releases first 2022 crop estimate
South African wine grape producers expect a good, but somewhat smaller 2022 wine grape crop following a favourable and healthy season. This according to...
The Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism receives $7.3 million to boost agricultural productivity and smallholder...
Global Affairs Canada has provided $7.3 million in funding to the Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism (AFFM) to enhance sustainable agricultural productivity and smallholder farmer...
Family Farmers in Kenya Replace Expensive Fertilizer with “Green Manure”
Fertilizer prices have skyrocketed as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. For some years now, family farmers in Kenya’s Kisumu area have replaced...
100,000 cassava farming households to strengthen food security and climate resilience
INGABO Syndicate Farmers, a producer organization and the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) today signed a US$2 million project to enhance food...
African Development Bank Group approves $73.5 million to boost food production in Tanzania
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group on Friday approved $73.5 million to finance a program that will boost Tanzania’s food...
Better year ahead for Eastern Cape farmers
Winning a landmark land expropriation court case, expanding an already thriving wool market to include communal farmers, and the prospect of rain are just...
Bayer launches new collaboration with Oerth Bio to further advance innovations in crop protection
Bayer and the agricultural biotech company Oerth Bio today announced a new collaboration seeking to develop the next generation of more sustainable crop protection...
Rwanda farmers seeks US $10M to rehabilitate irrigation facilities
Farmers in Rwanda are seeking US $10million to rehabilitate irrigation facilities destroyed by floods in different years. Ignace Mugenzi, the president of Coproriz, a...
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...
Zimbabwe adopts Pfumvudza concept
The government of Zimbabwe has adopted the Pfumvudza concept during the 2021/2021 agricultural season.
Following the success of the Pfumvudza programme on maize and other...