The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has announced to help 1.7mn small-scale farmers in Kenya and Nigeria with personalised agricultural advice through their mobile phones, to improve their incomes, food security and resilience to economic shocks caused by COVID-19
The project will support around 1.2 million people from subsistence farming and nomadic pastoralist communities across nine states, with an additional 2.5 million people set to benefit indirectly
Vice president Dr Constantino Chiwenga took stock of the agricultural projects around the country last week
With Desert Locusts ravaging large swathes of East Africa in recent months, concerns have been rising that swarms could turn their sights westward and invade countries such as Chad, Niger, Mali and Mauritania
Ghana’s cocoa output is set to be of around 900,000 tonnes in the 2020/2021 season, which is up 5.8 per cent from the forecast for 2019/2020, according the Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) parliamentary report
