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Morocco has significantly increased its imports of Russian wheat during the current marketing year, reaching 310,000 tons. This figure represents a substantial 45% increase compared to the 213,000 tons imported in the previous year.
Ghana’s Minister of Finance, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, has announced plans by the government to acquire 200,000 hectares of land for cocoa plantations as part of efforts to revive Ghana’s struggling cocoa sector and restore production levels to 1 million metric tonnes.
The Federal Government of Nigeria has signed a $158.15 million financing agreement for the Value Chain Programme in Northern Nigeria (VCN) to revolutionise agriculture sector in the country.
Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Abubakar Kyari, says that Nigeria lost over N1.3 billion to the outbreak of tomato pests popularly called tomato leaf miner or tomato Ebola in three states of Kano, Katsina and Kaduna in northern Nigeria.
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) recently hosted a two-day meeting of the Steering Committee of the Partenariat pour le Coton (PPC), a global platform established to support transformation and value addition in the cotton-textile-garment (CTG) sector in developing countries.
Zimbabwe to enact Fisheries and Aquaculture Bill, poised to transform aquaculture industry into a billion-dollar sector.
The Supreme Consultative Council of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), says that cocoa smuggling can be reduced by as much as 80 per cent if a new pricing arrangement proposed by COCOBOD takes effect.
A Regional Forum on Transformation to Sustainable Agricultural Systems convened in Bamako on Monday, May 5, 2025, bringing together representatives from 13 African nations.
Silagreen International Agro Development Limited has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with several Brazilian institutions, including the University of Zebu Breeders Association, the Educational Foundation for the Development of Agricultural Sciences, and Associated Colleges of UBERABA.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Dr Ransford Abbey, has said that Ghana is set to announce a new price for the 2025/2026 cocoa season in August this year.