Four UK agri-tech centres – CHAP, CIEL, Agri-EPI and Agrimetrics – have formed a sustainable farming partnership with world leading agricultural research and training organisation, Wageningen University & Research (WUR)...
Rice has become one of the main diets in most Ghanaian homes due to its easy preparation and unique taste, but only 20 per cent of locally–grown rice is consumed...
Ethiopia's coffee export has fallen 50 per cent short of the government's projected target for this fiscal year
The government of Japan is providing generous funding to UNICEF to support Somalia’s drought-affected children with proper sanitation facilities in schools, keep them in education and provide abused women and...
Lagos state government has decided to train and empower around 15,000 youths and the unemployed in the next four years in agricultural value chains
The round dosificator for dry and wet pigs‘ feed components of WEDA Dammann & We-ster kamp is now additionally available in two spacious variations of six and ten cubic metres of intermediate storage capacity
The board of directors of the African Development Fund has approved a US$27.9mn grant to Ghana for the development of agricultural value chains in the Savannah region
The Republic of Seychelles has launched the world's first sovereign blue bond-a pioneering financial instrument designed to support sustainable marine and fisheries projects
Case IH has opened its new training academy in Chinhoyi in Zimbabwe, aiming to providing hands-on technical and operational training to help farmers improve productivity through the wider adoption of...
Egypt and Ukraine have reached a deal under which Egypt will give Ukraine long staple cotton in return for wheat
The Advanced Maize Seed Adoption Program (AMSAP) has been immensely successful in outpacing the maize production target in 2017 by 150 per cent in Ethiopia, which, in addition, has boosted...
Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) has invited Thailand’s agribusiness community to invest in rice production and other agricultural sub-sectors in the West African nation
The Zimbabwe Poultry Association (ZPA) has said that it plans to produce 72 million day-old chicks this year, up from 52 million in 2011
Wadi Group recently celebrated 30 years of collaboration with Ross, at its seventh Wadi Poultry Academy held from 25-29 September in Cairo, Egypt
As combined technologies allow producers to meet demand for high-quality protein, DuPont discusses some crucial facts about feed ingredient quality and variability, bird performance and feed cost reduction, which are...
The government of Madagascar received a symbolic cheque on 7 July for US$2.13mn from the African Risk Capacity Insurance Company Limited (ARC Ltd) to cover anticipated losses to livelihoods from...
Five Senegalese entrepreneurs have been selected to receive six months of business incubation and US$2,000 seed-funding from the Senegal Start-Up Accelerator to kick-start their business
Pöttinger has rolled out its latest series of hitch-mounted reversible ploughs, the SERVO 4000. These ploughs comprise of a simple and intuitive control centre with an extremely robust turnover mechanism...
JOHN DEERE RECENTLY introduced a new row-crop tractor line called the 8R series and 8RT track series. The line includes six wheeled models and three track models. Deere also released...
Any poultry processor anywhere in the world whose business is growing will one day face the decision to move from manual to automatic evisceration