The country is edging closer towards the adoption of the GMO cotton variety in a move that might boost production in the ailing sub sector.
Mount Kenya rises majestically from the Kenyan landscape, dwarfing all around it, a magisterial monument. The mountain is a fertile giant, but this year it became a killing field for the hundreds of thousands of cattle driven there to escape the fiercest drought in a decade.
The annual national agricultural trade fair in central Kenya will be held late this month. This year's event, slated for November 20 and 21 in Ol'Kalou town, seeks to explore possible interventions by government and other stakeholders to improve food security.
WHAT will a farmer do to have a successful crop, especially at a time when loans are hard to access? Farmers, both established and new, are faced with a challenge to raise funds to finance their crop after the Reserve Bank, which had become a perennial financer of agriculture, ceased quasi-fiscal operations to focus on its core business.
The Agricultural field officer at Njaba Kunda, Sana Singhateh, has commended one Alhagie Modibou Keita, a farmer at Njaba kunda in Central Baddibu District of the North Bank Region for his contribution to the diversification of agriculture by cultivating different varieties of crops to contribute to the attainment of food security.
The Agricultural Bank of Namibia (Agribank) has implemented the Software Application Programme (SAP) and Enterprise Resource Program (ERP) aimed at improving client service delivery.
Newmont Ghana Gold Limited (NGGL), the Agricultural Improvement and Land Access Programme (AILAP) and Ahafo Agribusiness Growth Initiative (AAGI), have jointly held an Open Day at Kenyasi, under the theme: "Increased Agricultural Production and productivity in Asutifi."
House of Representatives Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation yesterday accused the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE) of condoning acts of illegality in the privatisation of the Federal Super-Phosphate Fertiliser Company Limited, Kaduna.
Farmers in Bayelsa State have raised alarm over an alleged plan to deny them access to the N200 billion Federal Government agricul-tural loan facility.
The government is to reconsider funding model farmers under the National Agricultural Advisory Sevices (Naads) programme for the financial Year 2008/2009 in the Karamoja region whose crops failed to germinate due to drought.
In order to seize emerging opportunities in the potato market across the globe, the Potato farmers Association of Nigeria (POFAN) said it is now ready to harness the abundant resources through partnership with Israel in the area of biotechnology.
THE Vice-President, Prof. Gilbert Bukenya, has advised Kumi University to teach agro-based sciences and technological studies in order to help revitalise the economy of Teso.
MOROTO district authorities have interdicted three officials of the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) over the misappropriating farm inputs.
Conclusion of the current round of World Trade Organisation talks would benefit Kenya by increasing its exports of agricultural products and processed food, a study has shown.
Farmers craving for Tropical vegetable hybrid seeds now have a reason to smile, thanks to the world's leading firms for pumping 600,000 Euros nearly 1bn/- into seed breeding near Arusha.
