Food processing company Cargill has completed the US$12.5mn expansion of its premix facility in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
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Rwandan farmers get solar grain dryers from WFP
UN’s food assistance branch World Food Programme (WFP) has donated 60 solar grain dryers worth US$39,104.64 to smallholder farmers in Rwanda
AgriProtein to set up world’s first fly farm in South Africa
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded firm AgriProtein has announced to establish world’s first commercial fly farm in South Africa as part of a project to produce sustainable feed for fish from fly larvae
GeoPoll and Control Union tap mobile technology to educate African farmers
US-based GeoPoll has partnered with agricultural inspection and safety service provider Control Union to utilise mobile surveys to engage and educate smallholder farmers in Africa
Africa uses open data to protect crops and fight Ebola
As mobile phones and improved connectivity spread across the world, open data is gaining its importance to solve issues from mapping Ebola to protecting banana crops in Africa, according to a report by Open Data Institute
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