THE US$10 million inputs facility, President Mugabe unveiled at the end of Zanu-PF's Fifth National People's Congress in Harare at the weekend, is a timely intervention given the difficulties farmers are facing in acquiring inputs.
The Ninth Rural Enterprises Project Clients Exhibition and Trade Show has ended at Asamankese in the Eastern Region.
MEATCO will stop slaughtering pigs at its Windhoek abattoir from the middle of January, but alternative measures have been put in place.
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Some 25,000 people are facing starvation in Baringo Central district and in need of urgent food aid.
Farmers and experts in poultry business said they are sponsoring a bill to ensure that egg is being included in the feeding menu of all institutions of learning across the country.
There was joy at the giant Hola Irrigation Scheme in Tana River at the weekend when the first maize crop harvest was launched after 20 years of inactivity.
The general public felt the brunt of high prices of processed food, printing/ publishing and metal products following increases in prices of these items in the third quarter of 2009.
Born into poverty in 1984 in a remote Ugandan village, Beatrice Biira grew up dreaming of going to school. But instead of setting off for a classroom each day, Biira stayed at home helping her mother care for her five younger siblings and planting the family's fields. Her parents could not afford to buy her a school uniform or books. An education, Biira thought, was out of reach.
Alcohol manufacturers intend to defy a ban by Parliament stopping them from manufacturing and selling waragi packed in plastic sachets.
Wife of the FCT minister, Hajiya Zainab Adamu Aliero, Wednesday launched the 2009/2010 dry season faming for rural women/cooperative groups across the six area councils of the FCT at Alieta, Abuja.
AT least 150 000 hectares of maize and small grains have so far been planted in Masvingo since the start of the rainy season.
More than 200 cows, goats and sheep have died from 132 disease outbreaks between October and November this year.
A major water project is expected to benefit over 170,000 people in Geita District upon completion.
THE cost of construction in Uganda has almost doubled in the last one year, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) said yesterday.
A fresh report from the Food Agricultural organization has indicated a rise in global food prices again for four straight months.The report noted that despite stabilizing market conditions, price index hit an average of 168 points last month as against prevailing conditions that triggered prices increases in 2007 and 2008 which usually averages an index of 100 to 120 points.
One strategic measurement of the efficiency and indeed effectiveness of the public health system is the number of people who have access to quality healthcare. Access to quality primary healthcare in rural communities in the country is therefore a key success indicator in healthcare delivery.
Akwa Ibom State governor, Godswill Akpabio, has said his government would spend not less than N20 billion next year on agriculture.
Famine is a catastrophic disruption of the social, economic and institutional systems that provide for food production, distribution and consumption.
More than 3.8 million Kenyans are currently facing hunger as the drought persists.
African countries signatory to the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Programme (CAADP) and development partners have vowed to recommit to the principles of eliminating poverty by accelerating agricultural development.
The prediction about looming food, water and power shortage next year is hardly surprising. All year round, Kenya and neighbouring countries have recorded minimal rainfall. And for economies thriving on rain for agriculture and animal husbandry, that presages disaster.
The U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations agencies in Rome, Ambassador Ertharin Cousin, announced an additional $70 million in emergency food aid to the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) December 9, providing an additional 92,310 metric tons of food for the 2010 calendar year.
Journalists from across the West Africa region recently attended a media workshop in Accra, Ghana, hosted by Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa on behalf of the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
When people want their peas or beans ready in the shortest time possible, the solution is to have them soaked overnight, so they cook faster. In most cases, there is no thought directed towards the health implication or benefits of this practice.
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