New AfDB sponsored digital platform launched in Kenya to help farmers access timely weather...
In a bid to save farmers from heavy losses as a result of erratic weather patterns due to climate change, a new digital platform...
IFAD President Alvaro Lario advocates for increased investment in rural transformation, reaffirms partnership with...
Alvaro Lario, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), made a strong pitch for increased investment in small-scale farmers and rural communities...
Mastercard partners with Kenyan bank to launch online marketplace for farmers
Mastercard has partnered with Kenya’s Co-operative Bank to launch an online platform that will see local farmers, first, access farm inputs right on time...
McCall Farms achieves massive production increase and grade a product quality with TOMRA 5B...
The TOMRA 5B optical sorter has helped this well-established family business achieve a 16-fold increase in throughput, improved the removal of foreign materials and...
Topcon introduces new feed management platform options for optimizing resources
Topcon Agriculture announces advances in its TAP FEED management cloud-based software platform for dairy and beef operations. Platform options now include the free TAP...
Uganda partners with China and FAO, launches a $12m project to improve farming
Up to 9,600 crop, livestock and fish farmers in Uganda are set to improve their farming ventures following a $12m project that has been...
Remittances and diaspora investments are vital to boost agriculture and rural development : IFAD
“Making the most of remittances and diaspora investments can, paradoxically, curb the need for more to migrate. These flows are great contributors to the...
Citizens worldwide demand action to stop animal transport cruelty
Citizens across the world will unite in calling for urgent action to strengthen animal transit laws and ban the cruel export of millions of...
PlantVillage helps Kenyan farmers diagnose plant diseases via satellite data
PlantVillage, a Penn State-sponsored project through its mobile application is helping cassava and maize farmers from Western Kenya to scan and analyse diseases, by...
Tanzania in a multibillion-shilling investment plan to boost barley production and sales
Tanzania has hatched a multibillion-shilling investment plan to revitalize its Kilimanjaro Malting Plant, a move that is poised to benefit barley farmers across the...