According to the World Health Organisation, Campylobacter jejuni ranks as the top cause of food-borne bacterial diarrhoeal disease in the developed world, with chicken serving as the most common source...
Startup business, eHempHouse has announced that it has filed two patents relating to Smartbox, a hemp processing machine that can be used off-grid, and will supply power
The Netherlands-based Trouw Nutrition has launched an online swine feed recommendation application for every phase of pig production
We regret to inform you that the Agroinvestment Summit, that was scheduled for 12 -13 March, has been postponed until later this year, circumstances permitting
From March 2022, the LEMKEN Heliodor compact disc harrow will be available with a preparation set for attaching a Vogelsang DosiMat DMX precision spreader
The Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) has called for the revival of the sugar industry
The Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief coordinator (USG/ERC), Martin Griffiths, approved the allocation of US$6mn from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to provide lifesaving and protection assistance to people affected...
How can Africa break out of its dependence upon subsistence farming?
GUBA Enterprise has announced a three-year partnership with Ghana’s leading licensed cocoa buying company, ECOM Ghana, to support GUBA’s annual awards and careers initiative
Casterra Ag Ltd., an integrated castor cultivation solution company and a subsidiary of Evogene Ltd., on 3 July, announced additional purchase orders worth US$2.2mn to supply castor seeds to new African...
Serfontein Kuikens has announced plans to expand capacity at its Potchefstroom-based hatchery operations in collaboration with partners Pas Reform Hatchery Technologies
Many food and pharmaceutical products have a distinctive texture that melts-in-your-mouth, for example, some processed cheeses, grainy like peeling cream or tough, sticky, crunchy and soft
Nigeria has released US$136.5mn to boost its agricultural sector and improve food security for 2015
The World Food Programme (WFP) has received a US$11.32mn contribution from the European Union’s Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations department (ECHO) for life-saving food assistance in Sudan, in addition...
Gorge Farm Energy Park in Kenya uses organic waste and sunlight to produce renewable power
Kenyan sugarcane farmers have asked their government to control the buying and distribution of sugar in the East African country in order to stem corruption within the sugar sector
A two-year University of Adelaide project funded by the South Australian Grain Industry Trust used drone imagery to measure biomass, growth rate and greenness at trial sites in the wheat...
The Red Dot Design Award, one of the world’s largest design competitions, has recognised the STEYR Terrus CVT tractor as a winner in the ‘Product Design’ category
The South African Informal Traders Alliance (SAITA) has asked the government to do away with tariff taxes and VAT on chicken products
The governor of northern Nigerian state, Kwara, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has urged the Federal Government to make supporting the development of agribusiness in the country more of a priority