Nigeria-based First City Monument Bank (FCMB) has announced it will invest US$240mn in the agriculture sector of the West African country
Agriculture
New centre to give training on sustainable farming in Zambia
German Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) has announced it will open Zambian-German Agricultural Knowledge Centre (AKTC) to offer sustainable agricultural techniques to the farmers of the southern African country
IFDC partner with Heineken to improve Nigerian cassava yields
Nigerian Breweries Plc, Nigeria’s largest brewing company and a subsidiary of Heineken, has signed a partnership agreement with Nigerian cassava processing company Psaltry International, and the International Fertilizer Development Centre (IFDC)
Tanzania looks to boost coffee output in 2015
Coffee harvests in Tanzania are projected to increase to more than 60,000 tonnes in the 2015 season, up from 40,000 tonnes in the same period last year, said the Tanzania Coffee Board (TCB)
USAID trains Ghanaian women groups on rice farming technologies
USAID has partnered with Bontanga Irrigation Scheme to provide training to women farmers on rice farming technologies in Tolon-Kumbungu District of Ghana