The Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has paid out over ZMK1.9tn to farmers countrywide who sold their maize to the agency during the just ended crop marketing season
Crops
Potatoes from Scotland to Egypt
Thousands of tonnes of seed potatoes take the 3500 mile journey from Aberdeen harbour to Egypt
New cotton varieties
The Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) has developed two cotton seed varieties to boost production of the crop and the revival of the textile sub-sector in the country
The plight of smallholder sugar cane farmers in Swaziland
As a consequence of a 37 per cent decline in the value of the Euro against the Rand since 2002, the smallholder sugar farming sector in Swaziland is facing a severe financial crisis