Bunge Loders Croklaan (BLC), Bunge Limited’s specialty oils and fats business, has opened shea butter processing facility in Tema, Ghana, with the launch of the Where Life Grows campaign, which...
Nigerian Startup Beat Drone, which has experience in spraying farmlands all over Nigeria, deploys its drones to disinfect communities and save them from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic situation
Thousands of tonnes of seed potatoes take the 3500 mile journey from Aberdeen harbour to Egypt
In a bid to strengthen its focus on the grain business, AFGRI, along with Public Investment Corporation (PIC) of South Africa, has announced the sale of its poultry business
John Dyegh, the lawmaker representing Gboko/Tarka Federal constituency at the Nigeria National Assembly has claimed that 'powerful Nigerians' are disrupting the passage of the bill banning open grazing
The UK has signed an agreement with the government of Somaliland and the Netherlands to support the implementation of Phase II of the Somaliland Development Fund (SDF2)
Italian aviary manufacturer SKA has appointed Claudio Torresan as area manager for its African and Middle Eastern markets
African leaders reaffirmed their commitment to transforming the continent’s agricultural sector at the 2014 Grow Africa Investment Forum which took place in Abuja, Nigeria from 6-8 May
As a leading African financial institution, Standard Bank has developed a strategy to finance climate-smart agriculture on the continent
Meyn, the global poultry processing solutions provider, has announced that it will present several solutions for cut up and deboning, which is thought to be extended from 3,000 to 13,500...
The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture is pulling the plug on three Chinese companies conducting illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in West Africa
Amatheon Agri Zambia (Amatheon) has established a livestock centre in Mumbwa, Central Province in Zambia, hoping to improve beef exports
The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, have welcomed an US$9mn contribution from the European Union (EU) that will enable countries in...
Africa’s small-scale fisheries are crucial for global food security and must be supported with greater research and investment, according to the international experts at Murdoch University’s second Blue Economy Symposium...
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has approved a US$400mn global credit facility agreement for the Export Trading Group (ETG), integrated agricultural conglomerates in Africa
Dr Terry Mabbett describes the theory and practice of successfully treating black pod and stem canker in West Africa with the application of cuprous oxide.
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has announced to provide new technologies to African farmers, aiming to transform agricultural production
Private equity firm Fanisi Capital has announced that it had bought a minority stake in a Tanzanian agro-processing company for US$6mn, expanding its footprint in the region
India's Tata group plans to grow tea in Ethiopia and is working towards setting up an automobile assembly plant in Mozambique as it seeks to expand business interests in Africa
On 9 April, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met with Prime Minister, Moustafa Madbouly; Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, El-Sayed El-Quseir; and Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, Hani Swailem, among...
Different types and sizes of fishing nets, boat engines, and refrigerated transport vehicles were provided. (Image source: Adobe Stock)
