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Ivory Coast farmers hope for more rain, sunshine to boost cocoa crop growth

Soil moisture is helping the April-to-September mid-crop to develop across most of Ivory Coast’s main cocoa growing regions, farmers said, adding that they hoped...

How land-seizure talks have hit South Africa’s farming industry

It’s not just the rand that’s been hurt by the South African ruling party’s plan to change the nation’s constitution to make land expropriation...

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Ivory Coast farmers hope for more rain, sunshine to boost cocoa crop growth

Soil moisture is helping the April-to-September mid-crop to develop across most of Ivory Coast’s main cocoa growing regions, farmers said, adding that they hoped...

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Ivory Coast farmers hope for more rain, sunshine to boost cocoa crop growth

Soil moisture is helping the April-to-September mid-crop to develop across most of Ivory Coast’s main cocoa growing regions, farmers said, adding that they hoped...

Yanmar Partners with Côte d’Ivoire’s ATC Comafrique to expand agricultural machinery business across 16 West African countries

Yanmar Agribusiness Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd., has announced a strategic partnership with ATC Comafrique, a leading automotive and industrial...

How land-seizure talks have hit South Africa’s farming industry

It’s not just the rand that’s been hurt by the South African ruling party’s plan to change the nation’s constitution to make land expropriation...
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N$573 million drought war chest announced

Namibia’s Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila yesterday announced a N$573 million drought package aimed at helping farmers and families currently gripped by severe drought. The...

Tanzania’s improved grape cultivation looms in region

July 16, 2020Last Updated: July 16, 2020 2,404 1 minute read

Milking it? Ethiopian farmers fight drought with insured cows

After farmer Manza Bulacho’s crops were wiped out in a drought that devastated parts of Ethiopia in 2017, the father of 10 hoped a...

African Development Bank, FAO and South Sudan’s government ink protocols for $14 million grant to boost agricultural markets

The African Development Bank on Wednesday signed protocols to disburse a US$14 million grant to the Government of South Sudan to boost agricultural markets...

Malawi minister applauds Zimbabwe’s agriculture sector

Visiting Malawi Minister of Agriculture Lobin Clarke Lowe has applauded Zimbabwe’s agriculture sector saying his country has a lot to learn.Speaking after touring several...

What will it take for Rwanda to achieve its irrigation goals?

May 24, 2019Last Updated: May 24, 2019 403 3 minutes read

Unique regional status to South Africa’s rooibos tea can turn fortunes for crop

Come December, when farmers near Cape Town harvest rooibos leaves, they will become the first generation to grow and sell a tea with a...

Livestock decline worries Botswana government

Government is concerned by the declining population of livestock, which has a deleterious effect on beef exports to the European Union, Norway and other...

New sensor-to-satellite technology from Wyld delivers global connectivity for smart agriculture

Wyld Networks has announced the availability of its new range of low-power, sensor-to-satellite terminals and modules that make it possible to connect agricultural sensors...

Your bowl of rice is hurting the climate too

June 3, 2019Last Updated: June 3, 2019 123 4 minutes read

Zimbabwe plans big corn imports after bad weather devastates harvest

HighlightsNation expects to float a tender for 750,000 tons of the grainZimbabwe’s corn harvest has been slashed by cyclone, droughtZimbabwe’s government plans to boost...