Agriculture

Field trials underway in Kenya and Uganda

EVONIK INDUSTRIES (GERMANY) announces a capacity increase of
TrypAMINO (L-Tryptophan) at Evonik Fermas s.r.o., a 100 per cent affiliated
company of Evonik AG, in Slovenska Lupca, Slovakia.

AT A TIME when failing harvests are once again threatening the lives and livelihoods of millions across Africa, 300 agriculture scientists, entrepreneurs, farmers’ organisations and governments from across the continent have gathered to accelerate a massive effort to develop and deploy higher-yield, disease and drought resistant crop varieties of Africa’s most important food crops.

ZAMBIA HAS STARTED developing farm blocks in order to diversify the economy away from mining. The now subsiding global economic crisis has exposed Zambia’s overdependence on mining sector which suffers from external shocks.