RICH countries' agricultural subsidies and denial of market access to produce from developing countries were partly to blame for low crop production in developing nations, President Mugabe has said.
President Mugabe yesterday said the Government will not nationalise foreign-owned companies, but will insist on the 51 percent local ownership on all companies according to the country's indegenisation laws.
African farmers are seeding prosperity. Just ask the woman they call "Marie Nerica" who is sowing a new breed of Nerica rice in Sierra Leone. She now produces enough to sell the surplus in local markets and to the government. Her success sprang from the government's renewed commitment to agriculture, sealed when it recently signed a compact known as the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development ...
If farmers want to cope with the changing climatic conditions especially droughts, they should adopt irrigation. Irrigating crops during droughts, even for scientifically improved crops, is important in case farmers want to achieve good yields.
The Government of Rwanda yesterday entered a groundbreaking agreement with US-based Eco-Fuel Global and UK's Eco Positive Ltd-which will see the two companies sink $250m in a project to produce bio-diesel.
GovernmenT has established a farming inputs subsidy scheme that will see a 50kg bag of fertilizer selling for US$7 while maize and sorghum seed will both be available at less than US$1 per kg.
COFFEE producers have been urged to improve on the quality of coffee in order to attract more local consumers. The board chairman of the East African Fine Coffee Association, Leslie Omari, said farmers, producers and brewers should improve the standard of their products so as to promote home consumption.
AFRICAN farmers are seeding prosperity. Marie Nerica who is sowing a new breed of Nerica rice in Sierra Leone is one example. She now produces enough rice to sell the surplus in local markets and to the government.
Namibia Dairies and the Namibia Farmworkers' Union (NAFWU) have signed a wage agreement through which workers at the Mariental-based SuperFarm will receive 13th cheques coupled with a productivity bonus and flexible working hours.
Farmers in the North Bank Region (NBR) have commended the Gambian leader, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, and the Taiwanese Technical Mission for the laudable initiative of promoting high improved Nerica Rice aimed at contributeing to food self sufficiency at the grassroots level.
AN association of mairungi farmers want the cultivation and consumption of the crop to be legalised.
The community of Lower Saloum and Sami districts in the Central River Region over the weekend embarked on a massive harvesting exercise at President Jammeh's rice farms in Janjanbureh. About 320 people participated in the exercise.
MASAKA district LC5 chairperson, Vincent Sempijja, has asked residents of the Kasijjagirwa Armoured Brigade to stop employing outsiders on their farms. Sempijja said it was better to employ the wives of soldiers on the farms.
Held under the Patronage of the President of the Republic, the 10th International Agricultural and Farming and Fisheries Mechanization Exhibition (SIAMAP 2009) was inaugurated on Wednesday by Mr. Mohamed Ghannouchi, Prime Minister, accompanied by Secretary of State in Charge of Fisheries Mr. Abderrazak Daaloul and Mr. Mabrouk el Bahri the President of the Tunisian agriculture and fisheries union ...
A five day National Capacity Building Training workshop on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Systems in Fish and Fishery products is underway at the NaNA conference hall at Mile 7 in Bakau. The five day training workshop, which started on Monday 16 November and ends on Friday 20 November, is being organised by the Department of Fisheries, in collaboration with Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and ...
