Browsing: Agriculture
King Mswati III of eSwatini has called on United Nations member states to strengthen agricultural activities as part of efforts to alleviate poverty and ensure food security.
Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Agriculture said it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a Chinese firm as part of efforts to attain food self-sufficiency in the country.
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday called for the urgent removal of all barriers that hinder coffee farmers from reaping maximum profits from the cash crop.
The Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau, Aristides Gomes has told journalists that it would be unfair of the government to impose a tax on the marketing price of cashew nuts, given that the market is free and exports depended on the international market.
South African Deputy President David Mabuza has denied that his government’s land reform programme was a punitive measure targeting white landowners in the country, dismissing it as “far from the truth.”
Botswana announced Tuesday that it has partially banned horticultural produce imports from neighbouring South Africa following the outbreak of an Asian fruit fly in that country.
The first African Salon de l’Agriculture (Safagri) opens on March 12 in N’Djamena under the theme “Transforming agricultural value chains in Africa in response to economic, climate and security challenges,” the organisers said Thursday in a statement.
The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, in the United Arabs Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed al Nahyan, has expressed ‘great interest’ in investing in Liberia’s agriculture sector.
The National Institute for Standardization and Quality (INNOQ) and the regional organization “Solidaridad Southern Africa” have begun to work together on the certification of agricultural products in Mozambique.
The Mauritanian Minister of Rural Development, Lemina Mint Elghotob has announced that her office plans to build a pumping station on the Senegal River for an irrigation scheme that would cover 65,000 hectares of cultivable land.