PETKUS Engineering GmbH rebrands
Luca Celeghini, CESCO President would like to inform the Grain market that: Mr. Mark Scholze and Mr. Luca Celeghini joined their industrial activities in...
Picture-based insurance cushion Kenyan smallholder farmers from climate change
As climate change worsens, millions of smallholder farmers across sub-Saharan Africa grapple with unprecedented weather changes and influxes of pests and diseases that ravage...
Kenya tops Africa’s avocado exports
Kenya leads Africa's avocado exports. Horticulture Crops Directorate (HCD) Director Benjamin revealed the report and said the country was among the world's top 10...
Third quarter 2021 slump in agriculture GDP a surprise but not a concern
Statistic South Africa’s latest update on the country’s overall real GDP for 3Q2021 shows a decline of 1.5% quarter-on-quarter (q/q) seasonally adjusted (but not...
LCFE, Heritage bank partner on wheat production in Nigeria
The Lagos Commodities and Futures Exchange (LCFE) has entered into a partnership with Heritage Bank to create a structure for trading on wheat contracts...
Cameroon receives US $200M to strengthen irrigation services in Logone River Valley
Cameroon has received a sum of US $200M from the World Bank to support country’s agricultural production in the Valley of Logone, located in...
AFD launches a call for ecological restoration projects
The French Development Agency (AFD) has launched a call for expressions of interest for research on "scaling up nature-based solutions and large-scale ecological restoration"....
IA announces Natasha Rankin as new CEO
The Irrigation Association Board of Directors has named Natasha Rankin, MBA, CAE, as its new chief executive officer. She will assume her new role...
Solidaridad Liberia unveils loan scheme to improve cocoa farmers’ incomes
The Solidaridad West Africa Project in Liberia has launched a loan program under its Liberia Cocoa Sector Improvement Program (LICSIP) to assist farmers in...
Africa Rice starts training for Liberia farmers on machinery operations
Africa Rice has commenced the one-week training on farm machinery operation in Liberia. The training is one of the activities designed under the EU-funded...