Follow AllAfrica News: Agribusiness, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/all-africa-news-agribusiness Sat, 25 Mar 2023 15:12:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfudAPxxWbdfIWhamfNIiY2W [Capital FM] Nyeri -- Coffee farmers in the Mt Kenya region want the Kenya Kwanza government to open up marketing of the crop through the scrapping of the Nairobi coffee exchange and allowing farmers to deal directly with buyers.]]> Sat, 25 Mar 2023 12:58:17 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfudAPxxWbdfIWhamfNIiY2W https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfucFAEHVJ8tTVw3HFUzDTIP [The Conversation Africa] South African president Cyril Ramaphosa recently reiterated plans to accelerate the commercialisation of hemp as well as cannabis plants. His speech setting out government's priorities for 2023 was a reminder of a pledge in 2022 - also in his state of the nation address - that the government would mobilise investment in the hemp and cannabis sectors.]]> Sat, 25 Mar 2023 12:10:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfucFAEHVJ8tTVw3HFUzDTIP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfuikn8aq5IUTwm0QkxGtqLL [Independent (Kampala)] Kampala, Uganda -- Innovation experts have urged players in the agriculture sector to adopt and accelerate the use of solar technologies across the value chain to address the reduce the sector dependence on fossil fuels and mitigate the impact of climate change.]]> Fri, 24 Mar 2023 14:12:01 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfuikn8aq5IUTwm0QkxGtqLL https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfs2BbS-V3W0gfdczOo_8W9B [The Herald] JAPANESE New Rice For Africa (Nerica) expert Tatsushi Tsuboi, who is in the country at the invitation of Agric4She Patron First Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa, has conducted a seminar with officials from the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development to lay the groundwork for large-scale rice production in Zimbabwe.]]> Fri, 24 Mar 2023 10:17:36 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfs2BbS-V3W0gfdczOo_8W9B https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfu31manuKF80c4HQhe4ZUzd [WFP] Blantyre -- Prices of staple foods are soaring in Malawi, ten days after Tropical Cyclone Freddy made its second passage over the southern African country, worsening levels of food insecurity as families struggle to meet their food needs. The price of maize, the country's staple food has soared to record levels and is now 300 percent higher on average than the same time last year in the cyclone-affected region. Several markets are either inaccessible or without sufficient food. In the southern Nsanje district, cut-off]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 15:02:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfu31manuKF80c4HQhe4ZUzd https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfuZMzlxVBGRICuZukmJ4mr4 [New Times] A cooperative of 157 women and three men in Rukara sector, Kayonza District, has found financial success by embracing coffee growing instead of subsistence farming.]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:47:14 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfuZMzlxVBGRICuZukmJ4mr4 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfuZMzlxVBGRINKEpFgimKzx [New Times] Adeline Umukunzi stands in a field in Musanze District picking nutritious mushrooms from inside a small covered structure. The structure provides an environment with moisture, low light, and humidity, which enables these umbrella-shaped fungi to thrive.]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:45:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfuZMzlxVBGRINKEpFgimKzx https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfv_DOlY3GiUDyVCAQLB0bf5 [Capital FM] Nairobi -- A mega scandal is brewing in the Ministry of Agriculture over the maize subsidy program after it emerged that millers were awarded different contracts to supply subsidized flour.]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:52:23 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfv_DOlY3GiUDyVCAQLB0bf5 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfthUWQp53BdXhtLdxSOwF-n [SciDev.Net] Nairobi -- Appolinaire Djikeng promises to strengthen research and innovation to improve the health of farmed animals as he becomes the first African to head the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI).]]> Tue, 21 Mar 2023 13:09:32 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfthUWQp53BdXhtLdxSOwF-n https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfsQIX1DiPgjHp8v71dCn6bG [Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The trade balance in fishery products was in a surplus of TND 464.8 million in 2022, up 26.3% on 2021, preliminary data provided by the National Observatory of Agriculture (French: ONAGRI) show.]]> Tue, 21 Mar 2023 10:15:21 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfsQIX1DiPgjHp8v71dCn6bG https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGftDTHOw2F4psVLv-B9hV9S2 [Namibia Economist] The Minister of Agriculture, Water, and Land Reform, Hon Calle Schlettwein called for intensified collaboration among sectors to ensure sustainable water supply and to safeguard the country's freshwater resources.]]> Mon, 20 Mar 2023 16:26:48 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGftDTHOw2F4psVLv-B9hV9S2 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfsjrJNbgfgxT4fjc6hd5eWF [The Point] As part of activities marking the International Women's Day (IWD), the president of the Network of Gender Journalists for Women and Cultural Advancement (NoGJWCA) The Gambia recently visited some horticultural women gardens in Central and Lower River Regions to know some of the problems affecting them in their efforts to improve the lives and livelihoods of their families.]]> Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:08:25 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfsjrJNbgfgxT4fjc6hd5eWF https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfu27v99xCd6hQpx5_w21kha [Ghanaian Times] Smallholder farmers must move from being Peasant entrepreneurs to be­coming more industrial, a Dean of International Programmes and Institutional Cooperation (DIPC) at the Accra Technical University, Professor Ernest Winful, has said.]]> Mon, 20 Mar 2023 13:46:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfu27v99xCd6hQpx5_w21kha https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfuxnzwEgcTDeHtuT6pSmY81 [FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Director General of the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority, (NaFAA) says the Congress for Democratic Change, (CDC)- led government is significantly impacting the fisheries sector since 2018 through the donations of free fishing implements.]]> Mon, 20 Mar 2023 12:34:20 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfuxnzwEgcTDeHtuT6pSmY81 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGftYqJdfiJk8Me4sICfMfkNm [ANGOP] Saurimo -- At least 60,000 hectares of land have been identified, in the eastern Lunda Sul Province, for the start of the National Plan for Promotion of Grain Production (PLANAGRÃO), in 2024.]]> Mon, 20 Mar 2023 09:25:12 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGftYqJdfiJk8Me4sICfMfkNm https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfurp6GN5ttS34fjc6hd5eWF [AIM] The Mozambican Chamber of Commerce (MCC) intends to sell national products to international buyers through online selling platforms.]]> Fri, 17 Mar 2023 10:59:29 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfurp6GN5ttS34fjc6hd5eWF https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfvPWkFKRCSJ4-QEmsPXZ5C9 [AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican Agriculture Minister Celso Correia on Wednesday called for "a paradigm shift' in the approach to agriculture, "because we cannot continue to be a laboratory of experiments, where each partner arrives and gives us seeds, but years later, when the resources run out, the households fall back into poverty'.]]> Fri, 17 Mar 2023 09:14:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfvPWkFKRCSJ4-QEmsPXZ5C9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfuV6oJYw9-W5Qpx5_w21kha [Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- An information day on the launch of the Culinary Route of Sfax Olive Oil project was organised by Tunisia Olive Association, under the project "Tounes Wijhatouna," funded by the German cooperation GIZ up to TND 153 thousand.]]> Fri, 17 Mar 2023 06:59:51 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfuV6oJYw9-W5Qpx5_w21kha https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfuV6oJYw9-W5Yfjc6hd5eWF [Daily News] LOW-TECH, high-impact micro-irrigation technology is making a big difference in the lives of women farmers in the Kigoma region of Tanzania.]]> Fri, 17 Mar 2023 06:51:33 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfuV6oJYw9-W5Yfjc6hd5eWF https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfuEUj9wWEGC7mhamfNIiY2W [Government of Mauritius] The Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development, Dr Renganaden Padayachy, had a pre-budget consultative meeting, this afternoon in Port Louis, with small planters and livestock breeders to discuss recommendations and suggestions for the sector in the forthcoming budget.]]> Fri, 17 Mar 2023 06:26:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/YoTvg0yBGfuEUj9wWEGC7mhamfNIiY2W