Browsing category
As important as food is to the family, nation and the African continent, how much commitment is there to its availability in sufficient quantities, and acceptable quality as well as at affordable prices? The recent experiences in Somalia and South Sudan where negative impacts of insufficient or total absence of food are manifest, speak loudly […]
Baba Berthe is the President, African Cotton Association (ACA), as well as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Malian Company for the Development of Textiles. In this interview, he speaks about the difficulties of cotton production in Africa and the preparations of ACA to host its annual conference in Nigeria next year. Excerpts: There are […]
Ethiopia’s Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Mr. Damene Darota, on Friday, said the ministry planned to lift close to 7.9 million rural Ethiopians from “absolute’’ poverty. The ministry, currently evaluating major activities implemented during the just-concluded 2016-2017 fiscal year, revealed the country’s plan to improve the economic conditions of the Ethiopians, mainly in the […]
As part of efforts to tackle one of Africa’s major health concerns, malnutrition, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has provided a $10 million grant for food fortification in Nigeria, Tanzania and Kenya. The grant, which is being managed by TechnoServe, an international nonprofit organisation that promotes business solutions to poverty in developing world, is […]
President Arthur Peter Mutharika has asked the private sector in the country to woo more investors in agriculture to recapitalize the industry for the country’s economy to grow. Mutharika made the remarks on Wednesday during the official opening of the l4th National Agriculture Fair in Blantyre which will run from l6 to l9 August 2017. […]
Nigeria and Morocco have set up a steering committee to develop a sustainable crop insurance scheme for the country. The Committee, comprising representatives of the Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NAIC), Bank of Agriculture, the Moroccan Agricultural Insurance Company (MAMDA) and MAMDA RE. In developing the insurance scheme, the committee is expected to use parametric products […]
The worst rainfall in the Cederberg Mountains in more than half a century has forced organisers of the popular Clanwilliam Wild Flower Show to cancel the annual event. The show was scheduled to take place between August 25 and September 2 in the historic Olifants River Valley town, but the worst rainfall in 64 years […]
President Peter Mutharika has again put his foot down on stopping local farmers exporting maize, maintaining a two-year ban, saying the ban would be lifted only when all Strategic Grain Reserves (SGR) in the country are filled up. Mutharika said this on Wednesday when presided over the official opening of this year’s 14th National Agriculture […]
Livestock farmers at the Schlip settlement in the Hardap region’s Rehoboth constituency fear that they may be forced to shoot stock thieves if police do not urgently intervene to stop the escalating cases of stock theft taking place there – and risk being accused of murder. Schlip has about 1 500 inhabitants, and is the […]
AMISI Mabula, a smallholder farmer in Tanga region, is familiar with a dark and bright side of practicing agriculture in the region. Like many other farmers in the region, Mr Mabula relies on agriculture as the only means to enable him earn his daily bread and pay school fees for his children. “It is agriculture […]
Despite government’s plea for communal farmers to produce more to counter food insecurity in Namibia, many farmers are now sitting with surplus grain, as the State is unable to buy all the surplus due to the economic crunch experienced by all sectors. Due to the good rains received this year, government reported that there was […]
Dodoma — Over 2,000 people from the central zone regions may land a job at a sugar plant whose construction has been planned at Dabalo Ward, Chamwino District in Dodoma Region. The modern factory by an Indian investor, Purandare Industries Tanzania, upon its completion, will have a capacity of producing at least 15,000 tonnes of […]
Agribank and the Namibia Development Corporation (NDC) signed a one year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on August 2, in terms of which Agribank will finance the purchasing of female breeding livestock by farmers in the Northern Communal Areas (NCA) from the NDC’s Kavango Cattle Ranch (KCR). To ensure wider benefit to farmers, the MOU provides […]
An expert in snake management and Associate Professor, Department of Forestry and Natural Environment Management, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Edem Archebong Eniang, has raised the alarm, that Ghana, Togo and Republic of Benin, had appropriated Nigeria’s annual export quota of 2000 baby-pythons to Europe, causing the country a huge loss […]
The Mozambique Commodity Exchange (BMM) says that it needs at least 25 million meticais (about 410,000 US dollars at the current exchange rate) to correct mistakes made during the construction of grain storage silos across the country. Cited in the weekly “Domingo”, BMM Chief Executive Officer Antonio Grispos said that several mechanical and electrical errors […]