Solar investment at Two-a-Day equivalent to planting 484,380 trees per year.

South Africa’s Ratelberg Solar in Grabouw, owned by Two-a-Day employees, has awarded Technoserve the contract to install an additional 610kW to expand its footprint...

Secretary Bliken visits, SA, DRC, Rwanda to assess US’s support to prevent hunger

US Secretary Anthony Blinken is this week travelling to South Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda, where the country has been...
Zimbabwe to expand irrigated area

Registration opens for 2022 Irrigation Show

The 2022 Irrigation Show and Education Week, the annual event gathering agriculture and landscape irrigation professionals, has opened registration for the 2022 show to...

Cameroon launches biochar technique for the restoration of degraded forests

Cameroon through the Forest and Rural Development Association (FODER) has launched an experimental project to restore land using the biochar technique. This action is...
China, Ethiopia in discussion on agricultural cooperation

China, Ethiopia in discussion on agricultural cooperation

The government of Ethiopia and China are in discussion over cooperation in the agriculture sector. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia announced that Ethiopia’s...
Kenya develops an Automatic Weather Station

Kenya develops an Automatic Weather Station

The government of Kenya has set up an Automatic Weather Station (AWS) in Machakos in a move meant to address issues of climate change....

Tanzania govt calls on insuring crops, livestock

The government of Tanzania is calling on farmers to secure insurance of their crops and animals for the sake of avoiding loss that they...
John Deere invests in Hello Tractor

John Deere invests in Hello Tractor

Deere & Company has made a minority investment in Hello Tractor, an ag-tech company based in Nairobi, Kenya. Hello Tractor connects tractor owners with smallholder...
Researchers embrace Artificial Intelligence to tackle banana disease in Burundi

Researchers embrace Artificial Intelligence to tackle banana disease in Burundi

A group of scientists involved in finding solutions to minimize the impact of a devastating banana virus in Burundi have developed an Artificial Intelligence...
Kebbi State Nigeria battle invasion of quelea birds

Kebbi State Nigeria battle invasion of quelea birds

Kebbi State government in Nigeria is set to fight Quelea birds which are invading the farmlands from neighbouring countries. Commissioner for Agriculture Alhaji Maigari Abdullahi...
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