Bayer and Fair Planet renew commitment to improve access to seeds in Ethiopia
The “Bridging the Seed Gap” project in Ethiopia facilitates smallholder farmers’ access to seeds of high-quality vegetable varieties.
Bayer has renewed its commitment to the...
New CASA programme to benefit 565,000 smallholders in Uganda, Malawi and Nepal
A new five-year £30 million UK Department for International Development (DFID) funded programme is aiming to improve the livelihoods of 565,000 smallholder farmers and...
Mauritius lifts ban on Kenyan avocadoes
Mauritius has lifted the ban on Kenyan avocadoes. Murang'a Governor Mwangi Wa Iria has since welcomed and applauded the decision. Murang'a accounts for nearly...
Access to finance, training and entrepreneurship critical to building SA’s black farming community
This is according to AFGRI’s recently-renamed Lemang Agricultural Services, created specifically to train, develop and mentor new era farmers, and focused on the further...
NTN-SNR structures its commercial offering for agricultural machinery
NTN-SNR opens up its expertise and experience in agricultural machines for all manufacturers in the sector by structuring a dedicated commercial offering of 80...
TOMRA Food consolidates its leading position in the South African market
Following TOMRA Food’s successful participation in Propak Africa 2019, the leading exhibition for the packaging and processing exhibition, Norman Smith, TOMRA Food’s Area Sales...
WIPHOLD expands strategic footprint in agriculture with investment in grain storage business
WIPHOLD, South Africa’s premier black-women owned investment and operating company, is pleased to announce its investment in a key strategic grain storage business along...
How can Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture be Applied ?
Agriculture around the world has been gaining productivity thanks to technologies aimed at increasing production without expanding the land. And with the arrival of Artificial...
Dudutech launches pest control to boost yields
Dudutech has announced the launch in Kenya of NEMguard® SC to control the country’s most financially damaging crop pest with zero risk of triggering...
AFGRI Group Holdings and an investor consortium create a strategic grain storage platform
AFGRI Group Holdings (“AGH”), the investment holding company with interests in food, agriculture and financial services related companies providing products and services to ensure...