The seemingly unending menace of hippos rampange has intensified again in some parts of the Central River Region with the latest one in Nyanga Bantang ward in Niani district of the area.
The Tanzania Chamber of Commerce Industries and Agriculture (TCCIA) Investment Company Limited and a union of Comoro-based businesspeople have signed an agreement for the supply of food items to the Indian Ocean archipelago.
Prices of food stuffs have remained stable in Enugu as Muslims celebrate the Eid el Kabir festival this weekend.
Four farms in Chegutu are under siege this week by land invaders, as the campaign against the country's remaining commercial farmers keeps escalating.
Livestock keepers in Monduli District have appealed to the Government to investigate a mysterious cattle disease which has killed more than 3,000 cows.
The British American Tobacco (BAT) has said that it paid N89 billion tax as revenue to the federal government between 2001 and 2009.
THE government has said that it will increase tobacco production from 58,702 tonnes of the previous year to 60,000 in the current 2009/2010.
A study by the World Bank Dar es Salaam office has criticized the cashew nuts warehouse system, saying it does not help farmers get good prices and creates more liabilities to the government.
Nigerian farmers participating in the biocontrol of aflatoxins using Aflasafe -- a biocontrol product developed by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), have said that grain quality after application of the product improved, signaling prospects of a significant drop in aflatoxins on the grains.
TO increase cassava production in Imo State, the state leadership of New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) says it would partner with the state chapter of Nigerian Cassava Growers Association (NCGA) to achieve the target.
Unprecedented increase in the prices of food items at festive seasons is gradually becoming an expected phenomenon in Nigeria. People have come to accept it as part of life. In Abuja, prices of goods have gone up by over 50 percent. The affected commodities include staple food, vegetable and meat.
LANDS Minister Alpheus !Naruseb held three consultative meetings with the farming community during the past week.
Rwanda's coffee revenues will drop by 9.5 percent this year to $42m (Rwf23.7b) from $46m (Rwf26.1b) last year due to low levels of output, Ocir-café's top official said yesterday.
The Grain Marketing Board is failing to pay farmers for wheat delivered at its depots nationwide within the stipulated two weeks period, resulting in the growers being exploited by some private buyers who are taking the commodity for a song.
Soyabean farmers should increase production to be able to meet rising international demand, National Soyabean Promotion Taskforce chairman Professor Sheunesu Mpepereki has said.
Government has been urged to provide adequate training and extension services to farmers to ensure that they increase productivity on farms.
The clean, ultra-modern chrome and glass lines of the Bella Centre, in the Danish capital Copenhagen, is a world away from the thronging canopy suspended over the tropical forests of Uganda, or the Democratic Republic of Congo, or Cameroon.
PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda has warned of stern action against Government officers who will be found deliberately withholding farming inputs from beneficiary farmers.
Bothered by the incessant conflicts between Fulani herdsmen and Tiv farmers, the Benue State government and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources have set in motion a process to put an end to the perennial conflict that has claimed several lives in the past.
Farmers have been told to take advantage of early rains to start planting. Director of Crop Production, Molatlhegi Modise said in Gaborone yesterday that in some areas the recent rains were enough for farmers to start planting.
Rural Development and Land Reform Minister, Gugile Nkwinti, will on Friday visit the Mokgalwaneng informal settlement and nearby villages to inspect the progress of the Comprehensive Rural Development Programme (CRDP) being piloted there.
One hundred and four farmers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have benefited from N14. 9 billion disbursed by the Agriculture and Rural Development Secretariat (ARDS) of the FCT, the Secretary of the Secretariat Alhaji Bala Batsari has said.
The federal government has gotten six million euros as grant, to boost cassava production from Netherlands, while the World Bank has approved a $30 million credit to strengthen agricultural productivity and growth in Uganda.
Problem of food security, aviation safety, border security, emergency intervention among others will soon be a thing of the past as Nigeria plans for more efficient Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) through training of expertise for the Universities.
The Food Agricultural organization (FAO) says international food prices have come down compared to last year but are still very high in developing countries.
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