Twiga Foods injects Sh1.2bn in new farming venture in Kenya
Agri-tech company in Kenya, Twiga Foods has launched a new farming subsidiary, expanding its business beyond supplying fresh produce and commodities through a mobile-based...
Kenya to modernize tea factories in Nyeri County
The government of Kenya has announced plans to spend Sh 50 million in the 2022/2023 Financial Year, to modernize coffee factories in three coffee...
Corteva Agriscience Egypt Hosts GreenTech U.S. Business Delegation
The U.S. GreenTech Business Delegation today toured Corteva Agriscience’s Met Bera seed production facility and viewed the business’ latest agricultural advancements first-hand, including the...
Organic farming amid sustainability ,food safety and well-being
Over the last years, the global farming system had to face a series of huge challenges ranging from climatic emergency to food safety. Against...
Westfalia’s colour of green: from avocados to carbon neutrality
Westfalia Fruit Group, a leading multinational supplier of avocados, has achieved the One Carbon World Carbon Neutral International Standard for 15 of its businesses...
FLASH GALA ™ is the fastest growing new apple variety.
The fastest growing new South African apple variety is currently planted in over 1000 hectares in South Africa with well more than 1.2 million...
The Link-Belt excavators work on the construction of fish farming ponds
Brazilian fish farming grew by 4.7% in 2021, producing more than 800,000 tons of farmed fish, according to a survey by the Brazilian Fish...
SA Black farmers need support to create inclusive agricultural sector: Academics
Most countries in the rich and developing worlds have some sort of programme to help early career farmers establish themselves in a farming or...
Drought-ravaged East Africa: One person likely dying from hunger every 48 seconds – Report
One person is likely dying of hunger every 48 seconds in drought-ravaged Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, according to estimates by Oxfam and Save the...
Land restoration and sustainable cocoa project launched in Ivory Coast
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched a land restoration and sustainable cocoa project in Ivory Coast.
The project aims...