The Rwanda Agriculture Board (RAB) has drafted a bill seeking to promote development of new crop varieties in the central African country
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FAO facility to protect farmlands from disasters
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has launched a facility to help disaster-hit farms worldwide
African farmers turn to climate-smart agriculture
Farmers in Africa are increasingly embracing climate-smart agriculture, a recently released book has claimed
PelGar to give Burkina Faso rodenticide training
UK-based PelGar International has announced it is to organise training workshops for rodenticide and insecticide dealers in Burkina Faso
‘Agribusiness key for Africa’, says UN economist
The executive secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Dr Carlos Lopes, has said that agribusiness has a “fundamental role” to play in the continent’s economic development