Space-age technology for fight against crop-devastating pest outbreaks in Kenya launched by UK-based CABI...
CABI is leading a consortium, funded by the UK Space Agency’s International Partnership Programme (IPP), developing a Pest Risk Information Service (PRISE), which uses...
Jamie Fredericks: Nederburg’s new assistant white-wine maker
South Africa : Ask Cape Flats-born Jamie Fredericks about her biggest challenge to date and the recently appointed 25-year-old assistant white-wine maker at Nederburg...
Rwanda innovators come up with solar powered technology that enables “hands free” irrigation
By Nita Karume :
A group of young Rwanda innovators have come up with a solar powered technology that enables farmers to irrigate their farms...
Is expropriation without compensation debate weighing on investment in SA agriculture?
By Wadile Sihlobo :
We typically use the Agbiz/IDC Agribusiness Confidence Index to gauge the health of the South African agricultural sector, as well as...
Tsebo Solutions Group supports community upliftment at Rustlers Valley Farm as part of UN...
Spinach that have been produced at the Naledi Farm as a result of its second harvest
To raise awareness for International Day of Cooperatives,...
10 Nigerian states to get US $30m in rice milling machines
10 Nigerian states will each get rice milling machines worth US $30m. These states, according to the Federal Government that Kaduna, Kogi, Benue, Anambra,...
Black farmers of Eastern Cape reap harvest of success
Wandile Sihlobo :
South Africans are a very inquisitive nation. Each time I tweet about South Africa's agricultural fortunes, someone asks about proportions of that particular...
Kenya, Zambia to meet and resolve dairy products’ export to Zambia
Kenya and Zambia will be holding a meeting later on this month to address the export ban of dairy products to Zambia. The ban...
Case IH Defines Categories of Autonomy and Announces Pilot Program
Since the reveal of the autonomous concept vehicle, Case IH has been evolving the technology and further defining automation and autonomy as it relates...
Use of organic methods in the control of fall army worms
By Nita Karume,
The fall armyworm is a known heavy feeder for its quick destruction of the maize...