High-level guests gathered at Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire for the official launch of the Prosper Cashew project, a five-year initiative that will help West Africa capture much greater economic value from...
John Deere introduces new, small-size H423 harvester head and the large-size H425 and H425HD with 4WD feed and replaces the previous H413, H415 and H415HD models
A study conducted by WaterAid Ghana, a water and sanitation focused organisation, has revealed that erratic and increasing volumes of rainfall caused by climate change is adversely affecting agriculture production in Northern...
The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), member of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group, has signed a US$200mn syndicated Murabaha financing agreement with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) for...
The Ornamental fish farming project is set to diversify and consolidate the fishing sector in Mauritius as the breeding of ornamental fish is a lucrative market that is gaining momentum
With decisions in place to change the farming system in Lesotho, the Minister of Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition, Thabo Mofosi has urged farmers to plant more wheat for winter...
The path to progress in work-related gender gaps is clear, according to a new International Labour Organization (ILO) report published for International Women’s Day on 8 March
Mealie-meal prices are set to rise after the Zambian government removed a subsidy on maize
FAO has launched a massive livestock restocking campaign, targeting vulnerable youth and women in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno State
On 9 December, the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) in Abidjan approved US$73.81mn to finance the Sudan Emergency Wheat Production Project under the Bank’s African Emergency...
Kellogg Company (Kellogg) has acquired Egypt’s largest cereal producing company, Mass Food Group, for about US$50mn
Tanzania’s minister for Livestock and Fisheries Mashimba Ndaki has urged people to consider putting money into the aquaculture sector, in order to increase raw materials for the country's fish processing...
An ingredient manufacturer Kemin Industries is growing its presence in the global vaccine market by becoming majority shareholder of Middle East for Vaccines (MEVAC), an animal vaccine manufacturer based in...
Manus Bio Inc and STK Bio-Ag Technologies (STK) have partnered to develop and commercialise plant-based active ingredients as highly-efficacious biopesticide products
Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI), funded by the UK Space Agency’s International Partnership Programme (IPP), is developing a Pest Risk Information Service (PRISE) to fight against crop-devastating pest...
The current raw material cost pressure is immense in all areas of animal production
The Directorate of Resource Surveys & Remote Sensing (DRSRS) and the Kenyan smart agri-tech company Agrvision, have signed a partnership plan to develop a platform for crop monitoring and yield...
The African Development Bank (AfDB), with financing from the Italian Technical Cooperation Fund, has provided approximately US$1,182,400 grant to help smaller agro-processing enterprises boost production and quality control
Rwanda has approved a new set of regulations concerning the preservation, collection, transportation and selling of milk
John Deere will introduce the advanced grain harvesting technology from front to back in its combines and headers for model year 2018 production
Alongside Noble, 29 other key stakeholders were present at the signing agreement in a ceremony that took place in November last year. (Image source: 10b travelling)
