Nam exports more live animals than beef
FOR the past five months Namibia has exported more live animals than it has slaughtered for value addition and export, the Meat Board of Namibia’s...
Month : June 2021
African farmers could benefit from more friendly EU agriculture policies
Gilbert Bor manages a small farm in the western highlands of Kenya. Landscapes are hilly, village roads lined with pine trees, his cows mostly of...
How Africa Can Successfully Modernize Agriculture
As a technology station manager, one of my responsibilities is to promote appropriate agricultural technologies in my region. Similar to many farmers throughout Africa, farmers...
Region Applauds Rwanda For Emerging Best Performer In Africa In Implementation Of Agriculture Program
The 14th Meeting of the Sectoral Council on Agriculture and Food Security (SCAFS) came to a close in Arusha, Tanzania on 25th June, 2021. Chairing the Ministerial...
‘We need 300m hectares of land to meet food demand by 2030’
The Minister of Environment Mohammed Abubakar said on Sunday that 24 billion tons of fertile soil are lost globally to dry land degradation affecting food...
Uhuru unveils Sh2.2 billion youth agribusiness programme
President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday launched a Sh2.2 billion Empowering Novel Agribusiness-led Employment (ENABLE Kenya) programme. The programme is a youth capacity-building initiative aimed at...
Call for investment in agriculture as 9.8m Sudanese face famine
The Ministry of Agriculture of Sudan, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations, and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), have...