The conventional forms of ploughing fields continue to surpass modern ways of farming.
Minister of State for FCT, Chief Chuka Odom, Tuesday commissioned four rural communities electrification projects at Kuje Area Council.
Residents of Yenche Village in Kuje Area Council who have never had electricity can now heave a sigh of relief as the chairman of the council, Dr. Danladi Etsu Zhin, has completed a rural electrification project in the village.
Small scale farmers in Nigeria have rejected the N148. 7 billion allocated to the agricultural sector in the 2010 budget sent to the National Assembly by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, describing it as a paltry sum.
THE recent launch of a $25m (sh47b) agri-business loan scheme provides new opportunities for Uganda's small farmers who in the past were considered too risky for lending.
SMALL-Scale farmers in Monze and Pemba districts have commended Government for assisting them with subsidised farming inputs.
AN impoverished rural community in the Eastern Cape celebrated a potential multimillion-rand windfall this week, after its representatives signed agreements with a Danish and South African business consortium that would give it a share in a proposed R1b n wind farm.
FARMERS in remote parts of Mashonaland West Province are failing to deliver maize to the Grain Marketing Board owing to transport problems and have called on the parastatal to set up collection points in their areas.
The Nigerian state of Kwara has received international attention for its invitation to dispossessed white farmers in Zimbabwe to come to Nigeria. The oil-producing nation - Africa's most populous - currently imports about U.S.$3 billion worth of food to sustain its 140 million-plus people, and the Kwara government hopes the experienced commercial farmers will help the state become food ...
Oceangoing ships are responsible for moving at least 80 percent of all commerce worldwide, so maritime pirates are a threat to everyone, especially those who are starving in Somalia and East Africa and rely on ships to deliver emergency shipments of food aid.
The country is experiencing low inflationary pressure. This follows a two months consecutive decline in inflation resulting from decreasing food prices.
For a country which relies on agriculture and livestock production as its economic mainstay, the level of support for the sector from the government leaves a lot to be desired. Since the 1990s, the support has dwindled even as the consumer population in Kenya shot up.
A major conference to help enhance food security in Africa and share lessons on best practices entered its third day in Nairobi Wednesday.
Kenya 's Rift Valley province is famed for large-scale food production alongside images of dying animals and hungry people.
Liberian Vice-President Joseph Boakai and UN Deputy Envoy Moustapha Soumaré have underscored the unique role smallholder farmers play in guaranteeing food security and alleviating poverty in with a call for increased investment in smallholder farming. The two were speaking at the weekend during a ceremony in 's central city, Gbarnga, to mark this year's World Food Day.
AS hunger grows in East Africa, the World Food Security Summit convened in Rome this month to talk a lot about government investment in agriculture, but hardly about trade by people. Cynics will say these proclamations from on high do little to help the world's poor and hungry. Yet, against the odds, African farmers are showing the way.
TECHNICAL and political officers in Iganga district, who were accused of having caused financial loss of over sh350m to the National Agriculture Advisory Services (NAADS) programme, have accepted to refund the money.
Tanzania Leaf Company (TLTC) has given tobacco farmers Tabora Region's Sikonge district two tractors worth Sh80 million.
Established in 1991, Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) supports all coffee development activities from research to coffee consumption. We spoke to UCDA Managing Director Henry Ngabirano. Excerpts:-
Smallholder farmers play a major role in maintaining the production of the main cash crop in the country. But just a few farmers live a decent life as many do not benefit from the crop since they sell it in raw form. The National Union of Coffee Agribusinesses and Farm Enterprises Ltd (NUCAFE) which is a private, non profit making association of coffee farmers was rebranded in 2003 to ensure ...
Farmers working at an oil palm nursery farm at Ahamasu in the Kadjebi District have appealed to the government to support the nursery project, which seeks to encourage farmers in the region to embark on the commercial cultivation of oil palm.
Some 500 million smallholder farmers across the world are currently under severe weather attack which is already ravaging crops, killing livestock and washing away farmlands.
The advent of democracy in May 1999 brought with it great expectation that there would be a dramatic improvement in the living standards of our people. But over a decade of democratic rule and enormous revenue at the disposal of governments at various levels, the vast majority of our people have continued to wallow in poverty and misery while unemployment and under-employment remained unacceptably ...
Concern Universal, in partnership with Saint Joseph Family Farms in Bwiam, on Thursday, donated bags of rice, cement and soap among other things to disaster victims in Foni.
The earliest freshwater aquaculture trials (fish farming) were carried out in the 1970s and involved the culturing of Tilapia fish in small family fishponds by farmers in their rice fields in the fresh water zone of the river.
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