Tanzania eyes 120,000 tonnes of sisal production a year by 2025 to boost export
Tanzania has come up with strategies that will enable the East African country up its sisal production to 120,000 tonnes a year by 2025...
Amaranth, a wonder crop fetching Kenyan farmers over Ksh300,000 per acre in 45-120 days
In 2018 the government of Kenya in a move to stem over-reliance on maize and subsequent consumption of ugali introduced a policy to push...
Ensuro, Ibisa and Fortune Credit partner to launch “ResilientGrowth”, an innovative blockchain-based product for...
Ensuro, in collaboration with climate insurtech experts Ibisa and microfinance specialists Fortune Credit, has developed a weather product called "ResilientGrowth" to support Kenyan farmers...
Kenya partners with IFC in Ksh306m plan to boost grain storage for smallholder farmers
Post-harvest losses could soon be a thing of the past for small-scale grain farmers in Kenya following Ksh306m investment plan partnership between International Finance...
WFP trains 200 WFP trained govt agric officers in Egypt
THE World Food Programme (WFP) trained more than 200 agricultural workers from Egypt’s ministries of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Water Resources and Irrigation and...
New wheat variety adoption key to Malawi’s food security
Scientists at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) are helping to scale up wheat production and productivity in Malawi.
The ongoing political conflict...
Kenya to double its avocado export in the next five years as demand increases
Kenya is planning to double its avocado export from Sh15 billion to Sh30 billion annually in the next five years following increasing demand of...
Chinese boy (11) develops mobile app for Botswana farmers
A Chinese learner living in Botswana, Wu Zeyin (11) has developed a new mobile application ‘Farm Assistant’ for to make work for farmers in...
Bayer’s Grants4Ag Program Awards 21 Crop Science Research Grants for 2023
Bayer today announced its 2023 cohort of Grants4Ag grant recipients who have been selected to research promising sustainability and biotechnology subjects in agriculture with...
The Growing Pecan Market in South Africa
South Africa is the world’s third-largest pecan producer. According to the 2020 issue of the South African Pecan Nut Producers Association’s (SAPPA) magazine, there...