South Africas Western Cape Provincial Government has responded to fears of significant farming job losses by stressing the need to explore new export markets for the provinces wine and fruit
Agriculture
Zambia to expand support for small-scale farmers
Zambia Sugar is currently developing a strategy to further enable small growers to become economically-viable suppliers of cane
Nigeria to target five million farmers for GES programme
The Nigerian minister of agriculture has said that his ministry is to enrol more than five million farmers in its Gross Enhancement Support (GES) programme
SCC urges Zambian farmers to ‘consider farming as a business’
The Swedish Co-operative Centre (SCC) has stated that Zambia could support poverty-stricken small-scale farmers if it ran its farms as a business venture
AfDB offers Cameroon US$640,000 for seed production
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has issued US$640,000 to Cameroons Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD) for the production of seven basic crop seeds to help boost agricultural production and productivity in the country
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