Agriculture
Sep 30,
2016
Vietnamese investors, currently on a one-week working visit to Ghana, are seeking to establish joint ventures with Ghanaian partners in the production of tilapia, cashew and rice. At a Ghana-Vietnam…
Sep 27,
2016
Kenya will not stop maize imports from Uganda as the two countries have signed East African trade protocol, Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Willy Bett has said. According to Mr Bett business…
Sep 26,
2016
The evidence is now in and the verdict is that Africa´s agriculture is powering economic transformation in the region. African agriculture has shown remarkable improvement compared to its precarious state…
Sep 25,
2016
The Zimbabwean government has so far paid out 42.7 million U.S. dollars to former white commercial farmers who lost their land during the country's on-going land reform program, an official…
Sep 22,
2016
A Zimbabwean white farmer has been sentenced to 12 months in jail after refusing to comply with a directive to move out of his farm at the height of the…
Sep 21,
2016
Around 6.7 million people depend directly on small-scale fisheries in West Africa. In the past, fisheries were an appealing refuge. But the sector is beset with challenges including over-fishing and,…
Sep 18,
2016
Bamboo tree is fast changing the economic status of farmers in western Kenya's Vihiga County. Bamboo tree Victor Shiribwa, a former head of transport and logistics at a company in…
Sep 16,
2016
Zimbabwe on Thursday received rice from China to help alleviate hunger after a drought that has left up to 4 million Zimbabweans in need of food aid. Chinese Ambassador to…
Sep 13,
2016
Ivory Coast’s cocoa marketing board has given exporters six days to supply documentation for export contracts, including proof of a counterparty, or they will be cancelled and resold, the Coffee…
Sep 09,
2016
Major development partners, firms and African leaders have pledged to provide more than $60 billion in an effort to transform Africa's agriculture from subsistence farming to agribusiness in the next…
Sep 06,
2016
The Ghana Rubber Estates Limited (GREL), a leading rubber producer in the country’s commodities sector has expressed wary of the menace caused by the activities of illegal miners as the…
Sep 05,
2016
The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agriculture (NIRSAL) has flagged-off the farm to market scheme of transporting livestock from Gusau, Zamfara State to Lagos by train. The scheme is…
Sep 02,
2016
Prospects for Cote d'Ivoire output in 2016-17 "look much more favourable", the International Cocoa Organization said, even as it slashed the country's hopes for the current season, driving world deficit…
Aug 30,
2016
In 2009, many dairy farmers incurred huge losses due to an unprecedented milk glut. In 2009, many dairy farmers incurred huge losses due to an unprecedented milk glut. Processors were…
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