Nigeria’s leading food and agro-allied company, Flour Mills of Nigeria (FMN), is set to tighten its grip on the country’s flour milling market as it prepares to acquire a major [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Mar-2022

Farmers in the country are hopeful of improved cowpea farming during this year’s farming season because of the new cowpea varieties just released by Joseph Sarwuan Tarka Universi [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Mar-2022

Minister of State for Environment, Sharon Ikeazor, who led the Nigerian delegation to the resumed Fifth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA 5.2) in Nairobi, Kenya, has disclo [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Mar-2022

The Federal Government, in its bid to address deforestation in the country has distributed cooking gas cylinders to smallholder women farmers in the North Central Geopolitical Zone [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Mar-2022

[Daily Trust] The Flour Milling Association of Nigeria (FMAN) has trained over 5,000 wheat farmers on the use of modern technology to enhance production. [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Mar-2022

[Ghanaian Times] THE Israeli Trade and Economic Mission in Ghana yesterday organised a stakeholder's forum in Accra to discuss ways of improving soil fertility through the adoption [...]

Country: Ghana

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Mar-2022

Tribune Online Oyo, Ogun, other farmers to earn €9.7m annually from Netherlands funded HortiNigeria project The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Nigeria has award [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 03-Mar-2022

The National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI) Umudike, Abia State, has released additional root crop varieties for Nigerian farmers. A director at NRCRI, Godwin Asumugha, des [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 03-Mar-2022

The Nigerian government has reiterated its commitments to restore 4million hectares of its degraded land forest and landscape. This is inline with its commitment to the Africa For [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 03-Mar-2022

UN Women has called on Nigeria’s Ministry of Environment to expedite action on the implementation of its gender action, to ensure “improved gender equality in climate change re [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 03-Mar-2022

MTN Ghana is on track to fulfill its planned spend of USD 1 billion on Network Infrastructure and Information Systems (NIIS) by 2025. This planned expenditure will go a lon [...]

Country: Ghana

Region: Africa

Date: 03-Mar-2022

[Dabanga] El Fasher -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has partially resumed operations in North Darfur after more than a month's suspension following a series of att [...]

Country: Sudan

Region: Africa

Date: 03-Mar-2022

The British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation has commenced the third cohort of its Farmers for the Future (F4F) grant project. The programme, which is aimed at empowering you [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 03-Mar-2022

Mikah Adamu, acting president of the National Ginger Association of Nigeria (NGAN), has called on the federal government to create a level-playing ground for stakeholders, through [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 03-Mar-2022

The Lagos State government is looking ahead towards harnessing the useful technologies that can increase food yields in the most sustainable ways for its teeming population. To ac [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 03-Mar-2022

[New Times] There is hope that the $120.5 million irrigation project Kirehe district, which has stalled for years could come to life. [...]

Country: Rwanda

Region: Africa

Date: 03-Mar-2022

[The Herald] Sifelani Tsiko Agric, Environment & Innovations Editor [...]

Country: Zimbabwe

Region: Africa

Date: 03-Mar-2022

PRESIDENT, Nigeria Institute of Soil Science (NISS), Professor Ayo Ogunkunle has posited that adequate knowledge of the characteristics of soil is necessary for its sustainable use [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 02-Mar-2022

The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) and the Federal Ministry of Health held an Experts/stakeholders review & harmonisation workshop for the Food Safety & Quality Bill [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 02-Mar-2022

An Non Govermental Organisation, Fold for Liberal Age Charity Initiative (Folliage)  in collaboration with the Ondo State government, has expressed its readiness to embark on tree [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 02-Mar-2022

Russia’s status as the largest exporter of wheat in the world is causing disquiet in many countries following its military incursion into Ukraine earlier today. Currently, wheat [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 02-Mar-2022

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Deputy President William Ruto has held talks with Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts (Republican) at the beginning of his 10-day oversees tour during which he [...]

Country: Kenya

Region: Africa

Date: 02-Mar-2022

[Capital FM] Turkana -- Turkana County is on the path to becoming a large-scale groundnut-producing county, thanks to a European Union funded project. [...]

Country: Kenya

Region: Africa

Date: 02-Mar-2022

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Somali regional state and some other parts of the Ethiopian lowlands, including in southern Oromia, have been ravaged by recurrent droughts primaril [...]

Country: Ethiopia

Region: Africa

Date: 02-Mar-2022

[The Herald] THERE is growing demand and consumption of rabbit meat in Zimbabwe, which is expected to drive commercialisation of the cunniculture industry, amid revelations leading [...]

Country: Zimbabwe

Region: Africa

Date: 02-Mar-2022