Experts have warned that the cost of Africa’s yearly food imports could increase from US$50bn to US$110bn by 2030 if immediate measures aren’t taken to increase food production
Climate FieldView, the flagship product of The Climate Corporation and CLAAS TELEMATICS can now be connected through the CLAAS API (application programming interface) to enable easy data exchange for field-specific...
Mapeks Organics has invested in the TOMRA Blizzard optical sorting machine, which aims to improve product quality and increase capacity
A full-scale industrial dairy farm will be built in Nigeria after a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between NigerPars Nigeria Limited, the Iranian Research Organisation for Science and Technology...
Agriculture requires a large amount freshwater; as much as 70% of the freshwater supplies are used up for growing food crops
Devakumar Edwin, group executive director, Dangote Industries, speaks to African Farming about how the Dangote fertiliser plant will help improve the ecosystem in the country
Post COVID-19, the Edo State government will focus on developing human capital in agriculture, agribusiness, agro-processing and allied fields to groom and harness knowledge and skillsets of its teeming youth...
INDICAL BIOSCIENCE, part of the Vimian Group, announced a partnership with Evonik to develop and expand precision monitoring solutions in poultry through the ScreenFloX service
US$24.8mn IFAD loan and US$7mn grant to boost smallholder agriculture in Zambia
Bayer and Yara International ASA (Yara) have entered into a software collaboration and technology license agreement to provide farmers worldwide with digital farming tools that help increase farm productivity, profitability...
Stakeholders in the cocoa industry from Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire have succeeded in convincing international processors, manufacturers and traders of cocoa beans to accept to pay US$2,600 for a tonne...
Pure Harvest Smart Farms (Pure Harvest), a world-leading sustainable technology-enabled agribusiness, raised US$180.5mn in their latest growth funding round
Dangote Fertiliser Limited has started pre-testing of its US$2bn granulated urea fertiliser complex before inauguration
The Aquaculture Enterprise (AE) has announced that it will enrol 20 small-scale commercial fish farmers on a three-year training programme in southern Malawi
Regional analysis for agricultural drones market is studied in different geographic regions such as North- America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and rest of world, and suggests that the global market will be...
The UN World Food Programme’s (WFP) activities in Malawi between 2015 and 2020 have helped communities adapt to a changing climate and enabled them to break out of the cycle...
The Government of the Republic of Korea, through its development agency Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), and the International Trade Centre (ITC) will provide funding to support ITC in boosting...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has granted a US$80mn loan to Congo to set up agricultural value chains to benefit more than 350,000 people
Continental spoke with field robotics researcher Professor Arno Ruckelshausen from Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences at the Agritechnica, one of the leading global trade fairs for agricultural technology
Following a meeting with the President of Sierra Leone Julius Maada Bio at the AU Summit in February 2020, President Akinwumi Adesina has made a visit to the country, from...
Japan will donate rice to Gambia. (Image source: Tuan Hoang/Pixabay)
