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Kenyan President, Mwai Kibaki has made a new promise to boost modern cattle farming in the Eastern Province.
The Botswana Meat Commission (BMC) has suspended its slaughtering schedules whilst Botswana government officials negotiate with the European Union (EU) market.
A major American foundation has expanded its efforts in international agricultural development to include a strong focus on women and is encouraging other donors to do the same.
Fayrouz, the premium non-alcoholic soft drink from the stable of Nigerian Breweries Plc, has received the prestigious MANCAP certificate and logo.
At least 3.3 million Euros will start being spent on a project funded by the European Union (EU) for the improvement of the access to water and to pasture by herding communities of the transhumance corridor in the southern provinces of Huíla, Namibe and Cunene.
THE Food Reserve Agency (FRA) is ready to offload more than 100,000 tonnes of maize onto the market to bring down mealie meal prices immediately the Government directs it to do so, board chairman, Costain Chilala has said.
Six persons accused of attacking officials of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) have been arraigned before an Abakaliki Magistrate Court in Ebonyi State .
Eritreans should use the current harvest efficiently and share crop resources equitably because most parts of the country had received inadequate rains this year, the information ministry said.
Researchers have sold over 1,000 solar stoves to rural families in Senegal in a bid to prove that the ovens can improve child and maternal health and reduce household fuel consumption.
At least 8,000 hectares of farmland in southern Somalia's Lower Shabelle region have been destroyed after the Shabelle river burst its banks, displacing thousands of people, officials said.
Heavy rains have displaced thousands and damaged crops in eastern and northern Uganda, but officials are optimistic an emergency will be avoided as better weather is predicted.
THE Uganda Industrial Research Institute (UIRI) together with Brentec Investments will start production of a thermal-stable Newcastle poultry vaccine to control the newcastle disease (Ensotoka) in poultry.
Areas in the north west of Zimbabwe such as Chinhoyi, Karoi, Banket, Mhangura and Doma, were once prolific food producing areas and the breadbasket of the country, but there is no food there now.
IT is more than certain that the solution to the oscillating price of maize meal in Zambia lies not in importing the grain, but in the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) offloading strategic reserves onto the market.
RESEARCH is on to prolong the life of cassava tubers after harvest.
President Jammeh's back to the land call has received a massive response.
The problem of livestock walking on or near busy roads and posing a hazard to motorists is to be addressed by the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Transport through the Road Monitor Programme.
THE Kano River Irrigation Project have produced over 1.5 metric tonnes of food and cash crops valued at N44billion over the last nine years.
THE World Food Programme will assist Zimbabwe with 350 000 tonnes of grain worth US$500 million following the signing of an agreement between the United Nations food agency and the Government yesterday.
THE Millers Association of Zambia (MAZ) has joined calls for the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) to offload maize onto the market in order to bring down the prices of mealie meal.
The current drive by First Bank Plc, to improve investments in the agricultural sector in Plateau state through the offer of credit instruments to farmers has not been hampered by the N1 billion already sourced from the bank by farmers as the facility is still open for access.
Recognizing the declining productivity and incomes of small holder farmers in Mali, the Alliance for a Green Revolution (AGRA),at the weekend in Bamako, Mali's capital launched an ambitious US$2.5 million grant to support 820 rural agro-dealers who are primary contacts for seeds, fertilizers and other farm inputs that are necessary for increased productivity.
A two-day microfinance forum on the theme "expanding frontiers in rural finance" was held in Bergamo in Italy recently.
THE French embassy has given a grant of over sh900m to Karamoja to secure emergency food aid to starving households and malnourished children affected by drought in the region.
"We have lots of orders for apple banana. There is a ready market for kibuzi in London. It is eaten from Monday to Monday. But how to get it there is the issue. Almost 60 percent of the cost goes to freight."
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