Trending
- VALR sets sights on East Africa as blockchain moves deeper into Africa’s financial system
- The cost of the data gap: Why Kenya’s lenders can’t afford to miss the full picture
- Tanzania takes EAC labour migration helm as regional rules face overhaul
- 2026 is turning out as a defining year in geopolitics, but for whom?
- Saudi Arabia and Tanzania pledge to deepen bilateral trade ties
- Tanzania rewrites its digital investment playbook
- Ethical sourcing boosting demand for Tanzania organic cotton
- DRC deploys 70,000 Ebola vaccine doses in high-stakes trial against deadly Bundibugyo strain
Agribusiness
Sustainable Agriculture Farming Practices have been identified as the only way to ensure food security in the future Crop Life International launched its flagship…
Expensive loans remain a significant issue across populations engaged in…
Sustainable agriculture employs 65-70 percent of Africa’s labour force. Only…
World Bank reports that insect farming could provide over 14 per cent of the crude…
Buhari said that the rice pyramids would aid efforts to reduce the price of rice in Nigeria. He expressed his expectations for other agricultural organizations to join the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)-funded Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) that supports Buhari’s drive for food sufficiency.
Speaking at the event Central Bank’s governor, Godwin Emefiele, said that CBN collaboration with RIFAN increased the national output of rice to over 9 million metric tonnes in 2021, up from about 5.4 metric tonnes in 2015.
Productivity per hectare of smallholder farmers has also increased from 2.4 metric tonnes to about five metric tonnes over the same period.
Agriculture center launched in Kenya: Elgon Kenya and the University of Nairobi have signed a…
A climate-smart crop insurance scheme introduced in Kenya combines satellite data and smartphone imagery to…
African Development Banks (AfDB) one of Africa’s vibrant development funders have levitated the cold storage…
When the government of Uganda launched the first of four regional agricultural mechanization centres in…
