The UK government has announced a new project to help Kenyan and Rwandese coffee farmers to improve crop quality and yield
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Global experts release guideline on FAW management
The international experts have produced a comprehensive integrated pest management (IPM) guide to combat and tackle the spread of voracious fall armyworm (FAW) across the African continent
Omex Calmax to get calcium into coffee beans
Omex Agrifluids, the UK-based formulator and exporter of soluble plant nutrients, has introduced Omex Calmax, a foliar fertiliser for fruit and vegetable crops including coffee beans, aiming to improve fruit firmness, storability, colour and skin finish
KBR wins contract for Nigerian ammonia plant in Port Harcourt
Indorama Eleme Fertilizer & Chemicals and Toyo Engineering have awarded KBR a contract for the Train 2 ammonia plant at Indoramas Port Harcourt site
World's largest non-governmental climate insurance programme for smallholder farmers launched
VisionFund International, World Vision’s microfinance arm and Global Parametrics, has launched a new climate insurance programme, the African and Asian Resilience in Disaster Insurance Scheme (ARDIS), that will benefit more than four million people in six low-income countries