Nigerian minister of science and technology Ogbonnaya Onu has announced that the federal government has developed a home-grown pesticide to fight the tomato pest – Tuta Absoluta – which has ravaged farms in the West African country

National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) and United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have signed an MoU to construct community grain stores in 10 districts of Uganda

Farmers at Aveyime in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region are expected to boost their yields with the use of Chinese farming techniques

Rwanda’s tea export earnings have more than doubled in the first quarter of 2016, rising from US$7.1mn in 2015 to US$18.8mn