To promote meaningful financial inclusion, the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) understood that it needed to directly address the rural population, particularly farmers and other players in the agricultural value chain
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How pest and disease mapping makes a difference to yield and cost control
Dr Lisbeth Riis, founder and CEO at Scarab Solutions, has explained how the cut flower industry can significantly benefit by replicating the principles of digital mapping of pests and diseases to the plants in their greenhouses
International community must provide support to hungry Zimbabweans, says WFP
Millions of Zimbabweans pushed into hunger by prolonged drought and economic crisis face an increasingly desperate situation unless adequate funding for a major relief operation materialises quickly, according to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
AGCO inaugurates new agricultural college in Nigeria
Nuradin Osman, AGCO vice-president and general manager, Africa has been sworn-in to the Governing Council of College of Agriculture and Technology in Isan-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria
Madagascar continues to lead in exports of pure vanilla extract, says study
Pure vanilla extract market size has been expanding at a healthy pace over the recent past, promising six per cent CAGR for between 2019 and 2029, with Madagascar being the leading producer of vanilla beans, fulfilling 80 per cent of the world’s demand for vanilla beans, according to Persistence Market Research