Global agribusiness company, Syngenta, has partnered with the Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation, a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) programme implemented by Fintrac Inc, to help smallholder farmers in Zambia gain access to high-quality, disease-free horticultural seedlings, giving them the opportunity to become commercially viable vegetable farmers
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Dangote could become world's largest rice exporter by 2021
President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwumi Adesina, has predicted that home-grown African brand, Dangote, may become the largest exporter of rice in the world by 2021
Biomin mycotoxin survey indicates higher mycotoxin risks in corn and feed in 2017
Mycotoxin-related threats to livestock production have risen in most regions of the world over the first quarter of 2017
Côte d’Ivoire to host African Green Revolution Forum 2017
Côte d’Ivoire has been announced as the host of this year’s African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) (AGRF.org), hailed as premier continental agriculture gathering, to be held on 4-8 September 2017
Biocontrol product to combat aflatoxin in Gambia
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) has launched Aflasafe, an all-natural biocontrol product, to combat the dangers posed by afltoxin in Gambia