South Korea has completed building Cameroon’s first mechanised rice farming district, which will help modernise the African country’s overall agriculture industry and improve food production
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Zimbabwean farmers receive US$38mn funding for farming equipment
Zimbabwean farmers will receive agricultural equipment worth US$38mn from Brazil under the ‘More Food Africa’ programme to be used during the 2014-15 summer cropping season
Ecobank and eleni join forces for African agriculture
Ecobank Transnational Inc. has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with commodity exchanges developer eleni LLC, with a view to establishing a co-operative framework to promote and accelerate the development of Africa’s agricultural sector
Potential of insects as resources for animal feed
Insects can provide a sustainable and environmentally-friendly option for animal feed, in addition to already being a mainstay of human diets for two billion people worldwide, FAO assistant director-general Eduardo Rojas-Briales told an international gathering of researchers in The Netherlands
Case IH named new distributor in Mozambique
Agricultural equipment manufacturer Case IH has announced it has chosen Entreposto Comercial de Moçambique as its new distributor