The USA government announced that it will support the Kenyan livestock industry with US$20mn aid through its Kenya Semi-Arid Livestock Enhancement Support (K-SALES) project

Liquid Telecom Kenya has installed fibre optic network worth US$4.5mn to connect 25 Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO) centres with Internet to help aid its agricultural research purposes

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

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