NISS Trains Members, Extension Workers in Northwest on Soil Test Kits to Boost Agriculture
The Nigeria Institute of Soil Science (NISS), North-west zone, has trained its members and extension workers in the zone on the use of soil testing...
Category : Agribusiness
Food insecurity now a perennial threat
ZIMBABWE is set to import 400 000 metric tonnes (MT) of maize from Zambia and Malawi to be delivered this June to alleviate a food...
Choosing modern farming as a career
Agro-business: Patrick Iga Kinawoza, an agro-business farmer and proprietor of Farming Consult and Management Company limited was voted Uganda’s best farmer in 2014. He discusses...
Tanzania seeks to be key rice producer in Africa
Tanzania is racing against time to become Africa’s rice hub. To begin with, the country wants to meet East Africa’s total rice demand, a senior...
Changing Nigeria’s Agric Landscape Through Innovation, Technology
The introduction of tracking devices that allow farmers to book tractor services from local tractor owners via a mobile phone app, which is part of...
Record levels of child hunger reported in Horn of Africa
Action Against Hunger is the anti-poverty group that raises alarm over war-torn Somalia. Action Against Hunger reported that Somalia has experienced the worst levels of...
Agric Ministry directs MMDAs to enforce temporary ban on export of grains
The Agriculture Ministry has directed Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to strictly enforce a temporary ban on the export of grains including soya beans,...
The African Development Bank helps strengthen food security in Niger Maradi and Tillabéry regions
In 2017, 32-year-old Hamsa Hamidou of Simiri in southwest Niger’s Tillabéry region, was given a cow. Three years later, he sold it and used the...
Government ranches are critical for success of agro-industrialisation
Under the agro-industrialisation programme, Uganda seeks to increase commercialisation and competitiveness of agricultural production and agro-processing, government ranches are one of the key enterprises that...
Make agribusiness attractive to youth – AGI
The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) has urged the government to provide incentives for young people who want to create Information Communication Technology (ICT) based...