Agriculture

Agricultural exporters have called on the Federal Government to streamline the stringent requirements and multiple levies laid out to exporters before accessing foreign markets. According to the exporters, agricultural commodities and other non-oil products have huge potentials to boost the country’s foreign exchange earnings. The exporters made this plea at …

[Ethiopian Herald] ADISS ABABA – A total of 1,951 hectares of land has been cultivated wheat for the first time through the Shebele River Irrigation Development Project , Ministry of Agriculture(MoA) disclosed.Read More

The Nigerian Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS) and Cowpea Association of Nigeria (CAN) have resolved to stop the negative application of pesticides during the storage of cowpea meant for local consumption and export. This development came on the heels of a strategic meeting between the heads of both agencies. It was …

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia — The National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority (NaFAA) says it registers with utmost dismay, the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) report Captioned “Liberian Fishing Communities Threatened By Chinese Supertrawlers”, dated July 14, 2020, published on the EJF’s website (https://ejfoundation.org/news-media/liberian-fishing-communities-threatened-by-chinese-supertrawlers).Read More

[New Zimbabwe] FISH farming is getting increasingly widespread in Zimbabwe, thanks to a joint drive to promote it.Read More

The Kano State Agro Pastoral Development Project (KSADP) is set to impact 450,000 smallholder farmers with facilities and inputs in the state. The Project in a recent release said it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sasakawa Africa to facilitate the intervention. Deputy Governor of Kano state, Dr. Nasiru …

[The Herald] In Chinyika village, Gutu district, smallholder farmers appear to have found a novel strategy to restore soils, damaged from decades of chemical use and mechanical ploughing: they are driving cattle onto their crop fields and enclosing them there for a period of time, at least seven days.Read More

[Nation] The Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) has threatened to take legal action against Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya for releasing an implementation timeline for tea reforms before they are approved by Parliament.Read More

[Nation] Miraa farmers and sellers are staring at a bleak future in the key Somalia market if the Kenyan government does not move with speed to resolve a trade impasse with its neighbour.Read More

[Nation] Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya wants millers to process the imported Mexican maize in Mombasa to cut transport costs, dampening hopes by processors that the State will waive 14 per cent import duty to make it affordable.Read More