One month after closure of Tiga Dam, dry season farmers in about six local government areas of Kano State have lamented how their sources of livelihood have been hampered. The far [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 13-Dec-2021

[Citizen] Tanzania is now working closely with Uganda to study best practices that will help boost production of edible oil seeds going by Kampala's success in producing palm oil. [...]

Country: Tanzania

Region: Africa

Date: 13-Dec-2021

[Citizen] Unguja -- Despite a huge potential in the spices business worldwide, the crop's value chain faces numerous challenges ranging from farmers, processors and transporters. [...]

Country: Tanzania

Region: Africa

Date: 13-Dec-2021

[African Arguments] While there's an urgent need to improve productivity, emphasis should be laid on ridding the food systems of inequality. [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 11-Dec-2021

The Acting Governor of Kaduna State, Hadiza Balarabe has identified food insecurity as a global problem threatening the security and social wellbeing of many societies.   She st [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 09-Dec-2021

Wheat and rice farmers in Nigeria have been urged to embrace the use of combined harvesters to avoid in-harvest food losses amid insufficient production. Combined harvesters are a [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 09-Dec-2021

The Lagos Commodities and Futures Exchange (LCFE)  announced a partnership with Heritage Bank to create a structure for trading on wheat contracts and its allied products. The Ma [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 09-Dec-2021

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has called for the adoption of climate-smart agriculture to improve crop yields in Small Island Developing States [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 09-Dec-2021

Farmforte Agro and Allied Solutions Limited has stated that it will empower over 112,000 smallholder farmers within the agriculture value chain in its newly inaugurated cashew proc [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 09-Dec-2021

Stakeholders are of the belief that Nigeria has the prospect to turn cassava to gold, and one sure way is to ensure that the cassava seed sector is the private sector-driven for th [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 09-Dec-2021

Prices of goods and services could skyrocket by 25% during this festive season, the Executive Director of the Food and Beverages Association, Samuel Aggrey has revealed. Thi [...]

Country: Ghana

Region: Africa

Date: 09-Dec-2021

New Juaben South Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mr. Isaac Apau-Gyasi, has urged farmers to use electronic communication to engage Agriculture Extension Agents. The advice [...]

Country: Ghana

Region: Africa

Date: 09-Dec-2021

[UN News] Forty countries now have best-practice trans fat elimination policies in effect, protecting 1.4 billion people from this deadly food compound, according to a report relea [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 09-Dec-2021

[Monitor] Travellers carrying unprocessed foods through Entebbe International Airport will be required to acquire phytosanitary certificates, according to new directives by the Min [...]

Country: Uganda

Region: Africa

Date: 09-Dec-2021

[Nile Post] The government has confirmed three strange pests and diseases that affect coffee plants, leaves, and berries following reports from different farmers across the country [...]

Country: Uganda

Region: Africa

Date: 09-Dec-2021

Tribune OnlineARCN radio, television will drive agricultural technologies to rural farmers ― Prof Sharubutu The Executive Secretary of Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 08-Dec-2021

The Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has urged the Bank of Industry (BOI) to partner with the state to move farmers from subsistence to commercial agriculture and agro proce [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 08-Dec-2021

Solidaridad West Africa, a solution-oriented civil society organization, has called on the Federal Government to speak to the states and local government councils to make land avai [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 08-Dec-2021

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) distributed fertilizers and agricultural inputs to 5,676 wheat farmers in Bauchi State for 2021 dry season agriculture under its Anchor Borrower P [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 08-Dec-2021

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said Tuesday it has provided a loan of 49 million euros (about 160 million dinar [...]

Country: Tunisia

Region: Africa

Date: 08-Dec-2021

As part of the fight against the recruitment of children into armed groups, several small children aged between 8 and 12 are encouraged to invest their efforts in agricultural acti [...]

Country: DR Congo

Region: Africa

Date: 08-Dec-2021

Tribune OnlineFirm tasks farmers to embrace use of combined harvesters to avert food losses Wheat and rice farmers in Nigeria have been urged to embrace the use of combined harv [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

Tribune OnlineNegligence of plant health undermines food security, cripples export ― Minister  The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammad Abubakar has sai [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

Tribune OnlineUS firm to establish cashew, cocoa processing industry in Ekiti community A leading United States agricultural investor, Assess farms international, has concluded [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

The Nigerian government says plans are on the way to establish six plant clinics across the six geo-political zones in the country to mitigate against food losses caused by pest. [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021