Gambia’s new Banjul Fisheries Jetty has been commissioned by the country’s vice president and minister of women’s affairs, Isatou Njie-Saidy
Analysis performed by Data Bridge Market Research suggests that during the forecast period of 2022-2029, the poultry feed antioxidants market is likely to project a compound annual growth rate (CAGR)...
The AGCO Agriculture Foundation (AAF) has launched the Africa Agribusiness Qualification (AAQ) programme for Africans who want to contribute to Africa’s Agenda 2063 for food security, nutrition, and the agricultural...
CABI has launched the Crop Sprayer App – the latest tool in the PlantwisePlus Toolkit – aimed at helping smallholder farmers calculate how much pesticide to use when treating their crops and protecting them...
Konnect Africa, the Eutelsat-owned satellite broadband service provider, has introduced SmartWIFI, a new hotspot service, as part of its initiative to bring digital opportunities to the Africans, particularly rural people...
While agriculture accounts for about 40 per cent of its national GDP, Nigeria currently produces only a small portion of the fertiliser consumed by its farmers
As the Desert Locust upsurge in the Horn of Africa threatened to provoke a humanitarian crisis, FAO director-general QU Dongyu appealed for urgent funding to tackle the outbreak and protect...
Germany-based Evonik Industries has announced its health and nutrition business unit will raise the price for ThreAMINO
Tropic Biosciences and BASF have joined hands to utilise Tropic’s ‘Gene Editing induced Gene Silencing’ (GEiGS) technology to develop traits to address growers’ most critical challenges in protecting crops
Welland Power manufactures diesel generators in the UK with Baudouin, Perkins and Cummins Engines
Crop Nutrition Laboratory Services Ltd (Cropnuts) has launched AgViza, a disruptive AI-based soil testing and digital crop advisory service for smallholder farmers
The World Bank has approved a loan of US$300mn for Nigeria to enhance agricultural output and food security in the country
The high cost of imported rice in Guinea, West Africa, has led to a change in diets and an increased use of cassava, which can provide three tonnes of food...
The Agriculture Fast Track Fund for the AfDB has awarded grants of more than US$1.3mn to two ‘high value agriculture infrastructure projects’ in Mozambique, according to the AfDB
Real IPM, Biobest’s subsidiary in Kenya, has announced to be one of three collaborators in a project to improve rice production in Tanzania by developing innovative microbe-based methods to manage...
South Africa and the US have reached an agreement to end ‘anti-dumping’ duties on US poultry
FAO and the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) have organised a three-day consultation on the Smart Policy Instruments to support the implementation of the comprehensive Africa agriculture development programme (CAADP)
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
Better Cotton recently signed a multi-stakeholder Letter of Intent to participate in the landscape approach, developed with local stakeholders in Chad in conjunction with IDH, intending to work towards improving...
Inaugurated in late January this year, The National Agriculture Technology Centre (NATC) in Rundu is about to start operations soon