Nigerian Breweries Plc, Nigeria’s largest brewing company and a subsidiary of Heineken, has signed a partnership agreement with Nigerian cassava processing company Psaltry International, and the International Fertilizer Development Centre...
African Development Bank (AfDB) Group President Dr Akinwumi Adesina has said that Africa must prepare for the inevitability of a global food crisis
TOMRA, food safety technology provider, has launched near infra-red (NIR) spectroscopy, fluorescent lighting and advanced lasers to analyse and identify the extremely low intensity of light reflected by aflatoxin mould...
CLAAS AXION 960 CEMOS has been selected as Sustainable Tractor of the Year 2021 by an international jury of 24 specialist journalists
With more than 500 hectares of land and 300 employees, Three Farms, a farming company nestled in the indigenous lands of northeast South Africa, produces around 3,500 tonnes of avocados...
Pöttinger has revamped the classic range of front mowers and has launched four new models: the new NOVACAT 261 and 301 classic disc mowers and the EUROCAT 271 and 311...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed an Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) on Land Reform, chaired by deputy president David Mabuza
The success of the harvest is a major factor in the financial results of many farms, and in some cases combinable crops provide the farm’s entire annual income, which is...
Technology and tyre specialist Continental will display the Very High Flexion (VF) technology for the TractorMaster and CombineMaster agricultural tyres at this year’s Agritechnica from 10-16 November in Hanover, Germany
A four-day conference backed by the United Nations was recently held in Ruweng Administrative Area, bringing together 80 representatives to have focused discussions on strengthening security, thereby ensuring a peaceful...
Aerobotics, a South Africa-based agritech company has announced the launch of a new Aeroview DJI Mavic 3M package, offering a comprehensive solution for precision farming
Ghanaian and South African poultry industries have joined a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) opposing chicken dumping, the import of cheap chicken from the European Union
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has granted a US$80mn loan to Congo to set up agricultural value chains to benefit more than 350,000 people
Lean farming has the power to make agricultural operations more effective and improve profit margins – but it requires a radical shift in thinking, said Conor Colgan, farmer and business...
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) and the John Innes Centre (JIC) have announced a strategic collaboration for joint research, knowledge sharing and communications, to further develop the...
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) are working with the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI) to provide technical support to SADC Member...
Overfishing by foreign vessels is driving many species towards extinction and destroying the livelihoods of fishing communities in countries such as Ghana, Liberia and Mauritania, said the London-based Overseas Development...
Farmers in Kenya have praised the country’s president, Mwai Kibaki, for his instruction to the government for the issuing of US$35mn to import subsidised fertiliser
Alltech has introduced Triad, an innovative solution that promotes successful farrowing and pig livability through a palatable, proprietary blend of Alltech ingredients
The World Initiative for Soy in Human Health (WISHH) and the Ghana National Egg Campaign (GNECS) have launched a national egg promotion ‘Eggstra-O’ with the theme 'Eggstra-O nutrition for al'