Category : Business
Agribusiness leaders and fertilizer suppliers provide unprecedented support to CRU and AFAP’s Africa Fertilizer Agribusiness Conference 2019
Executives will gather to trade agricultural inputs and discuss investment, partnership, and innovation across the African supply chain. The premier fertilizer marketplace returns to Cape...
Kenya’s livestock turnover hits US$1.44Bn
Kenya’s livestock turnover has hit US$1.44Bn. The turnover, which is an increase from 2018’s US $1.34Bn, has been attributed to Kenyans’ growing appetite for meat...
Zebras offer leads to control tsetse flies
Zebras, specifically odours found in their skin, may provide leads to boost the management of the deadly and devastating African trypanosomosis disease, which is transmitted...
World Bank approves US $550m grant for Ethiopia’s Low lands Livelihood Resilience Project
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a total of US $550m for Ethiopia’s Low lands Livelihood Resilience Project. The grant will serve to...
Zimbabwe Treasury allocates the US $67.6m for livestock vaccines
The Zimbabwe Treasury has allocated a budget of $67.6m for the procurement of dip chemicals, vaccines and animal pest and disease surveillance to curb livestock...
FAO calls for more support for African farmers in face of climate change
According to participants at the Africa Food Security Leadership Dialogue hosted by the Government of Rwanda in Kigali on 5-6 August, resilience must be boosted...
Shifting to a plant-based diet to significantly help fight climate change: GODAN
Andre Laperrière, executive director of Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN), has highlighted the impact of Western appetite on global warming and the...
Agrotop to build a large-scale breeding farm in Nigeria
Agrotop, one of the leading global players in livestock turnkey projects, has announced to build a large-scale pullet and breeding farm for Agrited, Nigeria’s leading...
Global firms sign deal to improve food quality and agricultural sustainability
The transaction includes the exchange of all shares of Corteva’s wholly-owned subsidiary Taxon Biosciences along with an equity investment by Corteva in Lavie. As consideration...
Zambian Honey sails to EU Market
Zambian Honey has made its way to European Union markets and is making good sales in various countries such as Germany, Italy, Norway and the...