In order to seize emerging opportunities in the potato market across the globe, the Potato farmers Association of Nigeria (POFAN) said it is now ready to harness the abundant resources through partnership with Israel in the area of biotechnology.
The country is edging closer towards the adoption of the GMO cotton variety in a move that might boost production in the ailing sub sector.
The annual national agricultural trade fair in central Kenya will be held late this month. This year's event, slated for November 20 and 21 in Ol'Kalou town, seeks to explore possible interventions by government and other stakeholders to improve food security.
A new form of colonialism driven by agribusinesses has been unleashed on the African continent and it is threatening livelihoods, ecological balance and portends new forms of resource conflicts on the continent.
Sugar millers in Kenya have, for a long time, relied on white sugar as the only source of revenue, leading to challenges that have pushed once known factories into oblivion while others stand on weak foundation.
Despite the sweltering sun and with a heavy load on her back Mary Muthoni strides to the tea buying centre with joy and pride painted on her face. "This is a different year," she smiles, hurriedly greeting other women farmers at the centre. For them, the story is the same: blessings in times of calamity.
WHAT will a farmer do to have a successful crop, especially at a time when loans are hard to access? Farmers, both established and new, are faced with a challenge to raise funds to finance their crop after the Reserve Bank, which had become a perennial financer of agriculture, ceased quasi-fiscal operations to focus on its core business.
Every year, Robert Assalé, a farmer at Tangamourou in the Bondoukou region in east-central Côte d'Ivore, produces an impressive amount of yams. He harvested 30 tonnes in 2007, 42 tonnes in 2008 and has almost surpassed 50 tonnes this year.
Farmers craving for Tropical vegetable hybrid seeds now have a reason to smile, thanks to the world's leading firms for pumping 600,000 Euros nearly 1bn/- into seed breeding near Arusha.
Experts have three days in Yaounde to set the base for immediate take-off.
Mount Kenya rises majestically from the Kenyan landscape, dwarfing all around it, a magisterial monument. The mountain is a fertile giant, but this year it became a killing field for the hundreds of thousands of cattle driven there to escape the fiercest drought in a decade.
The Agricultural field officer at Njaba Kunda, Sana Singhateh, has commended one Alhagie Modibou Keita, a farmer at Njaba kunda in Central Baddibu District of the North Bank Region for his contribution to the diversification of agriculture by cultivating different varieties of crops to contribute to the attainment of food security.
The Agricultural Bank of Namibia (Agribank) has implemented the Software Application Programme (SAP) and Enterprise Resource Program (ERP) aimed at improving client service delivery.
Newmont Ghana Gold Limited (NGGL), the Agricultural Improvement and Land Access Programme (AILAP) and Ahafo Agribusiness Growth Initiative (AAGI), have jointly held an Open Day at Kenyasi, under the theme: "Increased Agricultural Production and productivity in Asutifi."
