Agriculture requires a large amount freshwater; as much as 70% of the freshwater supplies are used up for growing food crops
Agricultural group Country Bird Holdings (CBH) has reported a rise in revenue of nine per cent to R3bn (US$343.8mn) for the year, up from R2.8bn (US$320.9mn) in 2011, in its...
Export of cashew nuts from the 2015 planting season has contributed more than US$250mn to Nigeria’s economy
Two vaccine projects aimed at increasing food security through the development of new vaccines for cattle, sheep, swine and goats are set to be launched in Kenya
Gender gaps in agriculture in Africa are holding back progress towards ending hunger and must be urgently addressed, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation's director-general José Graziano da...
As the governments are taking measures such as banning grain exports and suspending flour sales abroad to ensure their own food security in COVID-19 escalations, this could trigger disruptions in...
Farmers in Tagale, Northern Ghana are beginning to enjoy the fruits of a three-year breadbasket initiative launched in 2010
More than 215,000 chickens from poultry farms in Nigeria's Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Kogi state are said to have died as a result of being struck by a disease,...
Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) has distributed avocado and banana seedlings in Kenya’s Muranga County, contributing to the region’s struggle against poverty, strengthening institutions and regional agriculture
Zimbabwe’s TN Bank has announced it has begun accepting cattle as collateral for cash loans
Germany-based Evonik Industries has announced its health and nutrition business unit will raise the price for ThreAMINO
On 14 March, FMC Corporation, an agricultural sciences company, announced a three-year, US$1.5mn investment in support of Generation Unlimited's Engaging Kenyan Youth in Agriculture and Nutrition (EKYAN) programme
For South African software firms with a focus on agriculture and logistics sectors, John Deere has unveiled its online operations centre solution, a centralised farm management platform that collects machine,...
As combined technologies allow producers to meet demand for high-quality protein, DuPont discusses some crucial facts about feed ingredient quality and variability, bird performance and feed cost reduction, which are...
Jacco Wagelaar, general manager of GI-OVO, speaks to African Farming on how the company is improving the egg industry in the region
In a recent study published in Nature Machine Intelligence, researchers at the Technical University in Delft, Netherlands and the Swiss technical university EPFL utilised the popular large language model (LLM), Chat-GPT to design a...
Uganda has launched a new project to explore increased use of roots, tubers and bananas (RTBs) and agricultural technologies to reduce post-harvest losses in the country
As President Emerson Mnangagwahas adopted policies to attract the young and educated to farming, Zimbabwe's structural economic transformation is now expanded to the agricultural sector, catching the attention of young farmers
New Holland Agriculture, a global brand of CNH Industrial, has been awarded a 2023 Green Good Design Award for its T7 Methane Power LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) prototype tractor
National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority (NaFAA) in Liberia has fined Chinese fishing company, Africa Zhong Sheng Hai, an amount of US$50,000 for reportedly smuggling fish in Liberian market