The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has sent potato seeds and fertilisers to many households in Lesotho to protect agricultural livelihoods, under the project ‘Special Programme for Food Security in Response to the Impacts of COVID 19 in Lesotho’
Agriculture
IoT set to overtake cloud computing as primary industry 4.0 tech in agriculture: Inmarsat research
A new research by Inmarsat, a global mobile satellite communications company, revealed that investment in the Internet of Things (IoT) is set to overtake cloud computing, next generation security, big data analytics and other digital transformation technologies, across the agricultural sector in the near future
US$28.3mn project to cut rice imports in Guinea inaugurated
A programme to reduce Guineas reliance on rice imports has been officially launched with the support of the Lives and Livelihoods Fund (LLF) – a multilateral development initiative created by the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and development cooperation partners
FAO launches new guide to financially empower women in agriculture
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Regional Office for Africa has launched a new brief that supports seizing the opportunities of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), for the economic empowerment of women in agriculture
Integrated Pest management to stimulate crop protection chemical sales over long term, opines Fact.MR
As per industry analysis on crop protection chemicals by an ESOMAR-certified market research and consulting firm, the market is anticipated to be valued at US$72.9bn in 2021, increasing at a steady CAGR of 5.3% over the forecast period 2021-2031