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Zimbabwe produced enough food to feed its people for the first time since adopting a controversial policy to strip land from white farmers, President Robert Mugabe told parliament on Tuesday. From the year 2000, hundreds of white farmers were evicted from their farms, often violently, and land was handed to allies of the ruling ZANU-PF […]
Prof. Ruth Oniang’o, the Chairperson, Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA) and Sasakawa Fund for Extension Education (SAFE), has won the 2017 Africa Food Prize. Mr Adams Ephraims-Onuche, the Sasakawa Global 2000 Communications Officer made this known in statement to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Tuesday. “The prize was awarded to Prof. Ruth […]
The National Commission on Research, Science and Technology (NCRST) is in the process of establishing a Biotechnology and Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) testing laboratory to facilitate full implementation of Namibia’s Biosafety Framework. The Innovation Hub, formerly the Head office of the Commission is currently undergoing renovations to host these laboratories as well as other national […]
The food market in Africa may be worth over $1 trillion by 2030, the Africa Agriculture Status Report (AASR) launched on Wednesday, has said. The report, commissioned by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and launched at this year’s African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) in Cote d’Ivoire, said agriculture will be Africa’s […]
Major maize producing economies in Africa might be losing a total of U.S.$2.2 billion to U.S.$5.5 billion a year in maize harvests – if the Fall Armyworm, which has been reported in 28 African countries, is not properly managed. In research carried out by Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI) and funded by the […]
Farmers will have to adjust their plans for this year’s cropping season to take into consideration the expected delay in the onset of rains, government has said. Tieho Mamasiane, the Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Energy and Meteorology, this week told a press conference that while the country was likely to receive average rains […]
TVC News Correspondent, Lara Afolayan has emerged best reporter TV Broadcast category, in the Open Forum on Agriculture Biotechnology Awards (OFAB Awards). Afolayan also beat the best reporters in Radio and the print category to emerge overall best science reporter. The award which was given at the The Open Forum on Agriculture Biotechnology, Nigeria chapter, […]
Ahead of the 2017 African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF), the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, wants greater attention paid to the implementation of concrete plans for achieving the green revolution in Africa. The seventh African Green Revolution Forum, taking place in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, from September 4-8, 2017, will focus on […]
Agriculture stakeholders have committed to work together in tackling post-harvest losses affecting vegetable and fruit production. The stakeholders made the commitment during the 8th USAID/Rwanda Marketplace for Nutritious Foods Community of Practice Meeting in Kigali last week. Epimaque Nsanzabaganwa, horticulture division manager at National Agriculture Exports Development Board (NAEB), cited tomatoes, where between 30 and […]
The African Development Bank, AfDB, plans to invest about $24 billion over the next 10 years to accelerate the realisation of the food sufficiency agenda, its president, Akinwumi Adesina, said on Tuesday. Mr. Adesina, who said the investment would be through the Bank’s ‘Feed Africa Strategy’ would require paying attention to the implementation of plans […]
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh has called on commercial banks in the Republic of Uganda to reduce their lending interest rates to farmers to encourage growth in the Agriculture sector. He made the call when a delegation from Uganda on an agricultural study tour of the Growth Enhancement Support Scheme […]
Zimbabwe President, Robert Mugabe, on Friday implored banks to slash their lending rates to farmers in order to boost agricultural productivity in the country. “We pray for banks to lower their interest rates because in a sense, they are an inhibition to progress and development,” Mugabe said while opening the annual Harare Agriculture Show. Zimbabwe’s […]
I will start with a question to jog your mind. How many ways can you vaccinate chicken? Last week, my chicks turned nine weeks and it was time to administer the fowl typhoid intramuscular (IM) injection as per the recommended schedule (Seeds of Gold, July 22). Please, don’t confuse fowl typhoid with fowl pox vaccine […]
Agribank will provide free mentorships to farmers in order to facilitate transferring skills and knowledge. In a statement to the media yesterday, Agribank’s manager for Agricultural Advisory Services Division, Elaine Smith said the mentorship programme will be offered to identified farmers on condition they sign a mentorship and training agreement. Smith said the farmers would […]
Buy Uganda Build Uganda (BUBU) is a new magazine that made its first street appearance only this August. Your columnist’s first impression of BUBU is that it is out to persuade Ugandans to engage in practical patriotism by prioritising Ugandan goods and enterprises that promote national economic development. It has an interesting commentary about the […]