Rwanda has approved a new set of regulations concerning the preservation, collection, transportation and selling of milk
International Finance Corporation (IFC), Cargill and Ivorian bank Société Ivoirienne de Banque (SIB) are helping Côte d’Ivoire’s cocoa farmers transport their crops
The Southern African Agriculture Development Partnership Platform (SAADPP) has been launched in Zambia under the NEPAD Business Foundation (NBF) and the Agri-Business Forum (ABF)
AB Sugar, in partnership with WaterAid and the Centre for Industrial Sustainability at the University of Cambridge, has launched a first-of-its-kind Innovate Irrigation Challenge, seeking to generate new ideas to...
Premier sustainability partner of the agriculture industry, Indigo Ag on 15 September, announced that it has successfully raised more than US$250mn to drive innovation and growth in its sustainable agriculture...
Africa Rice, an agricultural research centre, conducted a three-day training workshop on an integrated rice-fish farming system in Fish Town, River Gee County of Liberia
The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) has developed a new, faster, low-cost laboratory-based soil analysis technique
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has partnered with SERUKA, a women’s organisation in Rwanda, to launch Rwanda Honey Value Chain Project, which aims to boost honey production in Rwanda and...
Esri, a specialist in location intelligence, has announced that Egyptian partner Quality Standards for Information Technology (QSIT) has implemented the crop mapping and field boundary detection solution for the Agricultural...
Ghana has announced plans to become a net exporter of the palm oil within 10 years
CLAAS is launching an automatic stretch brake function for the ARION 500/600 with CMATIC transmission and air brakes to relieve the burden on the driver in difficult conditions such as...
The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has commissioned the Weddi Africa Tomato Processing Factory, under the 1-District-1-Factory initiative, at Domfete, in the Berekum West District...
Modern foods will be far more efficient than animal-derived products: up to 100 times more land-efficient, 10-25 times more feedstock-efficient, 20 times more time-efficient and 10 times more water-efficient than...
Whiteflies are one of the world’s most widespread field, garden, and greenhouse insects
A variety of factors influence the formulation of a quality shrimp feed recipe; factors such as the environment in which shrimp are raised, their nutritional needs at different stages of...
French fish farming company Aquapesca has announced it has expanded its operations in Mozambique by building a sea food farming plant in Nacala in the northern part of the country...
BASF has launched a campaign titled ‘Farming, the Biggest Job on Earth’ to address the growing demand for food on dwindling land
Sierra Leone has improved its production of rice, cassava and other products according to the country's minister of agriculture, forestry and food security
CNH Industrial’s Antonio Marzia has spoken of the growing importance of precision farming
Although the fall armyworm attacks mostly maize plants, it may occasionally attack cotton, wheat, sorghum, soybeans, potatoes and groundnuts
The new cassava processing industries are set to produce 240 tonnes of cassava per day. (Image source: KrisFricke)
