First cannabis Lekgotla to be held in the North West Province
The North West Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in collaboration with the North West University will host the first North West Province Cannabis...
TOMRA Food starts working with the renderers of petfood ingredients
Optical sorting machines
now benefit the renderers of animal food production by-products
TOMRA Food has begun offering its optical sorting...
Kenya pledges US $11M for irrigation in Nyeri County
The government of Kenya has pledged US $11million for the irrigation of farmland in Nyeri County. Minister of Water, Sanitation and Irrigation, Sicily Kariuki...
Vriendschap Boerdery standardises on Massey Ferguson tractors from FMS for its sugarcane operations
Vriendschap Boerderys most recent purchase was a MF 7726
Such was the support and back-up offered by Farm Maintenance Services (FMS), one of the KwaZulu-Natal...
Madagascar: 80% of Malagasy at risk of eviction from their land
The law (n°2021-016) passed by both Houses of the Parliament and accepted by the High Constitutional Court in June 2021, overturns all the advances...
Niger to inject 15% of budget into Agriculture sector
The government of Niger has injected 15% of the annual state budget over the next five years in the Agriculture sector. The...
AGCO Continues Technology Transformation to Become an Industry Leader in Smart Farming Solutions
Following the recently announced transformational Joint Venture (JV) with Trimble, which creates an industry leading global mixed-fleet precision ag platform, AGCO (NYSE: AGCO), a...
Uganda considers ban on Kenyan produce
The government of Uganda is considering to put a ban on Kenya’s raw and processed agricultural products from its market.
The Ugandan Cabinet agreed to...
IFAD President Warns of Global Stability Risk from Fragile Food Systems
As world leaders gather at the Munich Security Conference (13-15 February) amid rising geopolitical tensions, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is urging...
Potential of vanilla farming for Kenyan small-scale growers
Since October 2015 when the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation (Kalro) launched programmes to increase vanilla seedlings through tissue culture technology to address...