Olam International Ltd and Rainforest Alliance have teamed up to produce the world’s first “climate-friendly cocoa” in Ghana as part of their ongoing collaboration
Crops
Rice technology task forces introduced
Africa-wide task forces set up to accelerate delivery of rice technologies
FAR pays ZMK1.9tn to farmers
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
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