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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.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Sunday inaugurated a new dam built at a cost of more than $37 million in southern part of the country.

eSwatini has grown its first genetically modified (GM) cotton on a 100-hectare farm to be harvested in April.

The President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Dr Agnes Matilda Kalibata has been awarded the 2019 Public Welfare Medal by the US-based National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for her work to drive Africa’s agricultural transformation through modern science and effective policy, according to an official statement obtained in Kigali on Thursday.

Mozambique’s Minister of the Sea, Inland Waters and Fisheries, Agostinho Mondlane, has said artisanal fisheries contributed more than $6.2 million from 3,490 tonnes of fish, which represents 8 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product in 2018.

Italy has approved a €5.8 million donation to support the commercial development of specialty coffee on the island of Ibo in Mozambique’s northern province of Cabo Delgado, APA can report on Monday.

A consortium of NGOs on Saturday launched the South Sudan Agri-business Development Project Phase 2 in Juba.

eSwatini has recorded the highest ever mango yield at 2000 tonnes in the 2018-2019 farming year.

The ministry of Agriculture has lifted the ban on some animals and animal products from South Africa which was stricken by foot and mouth disease.

Fishing activities in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado are under threat due to crocodiles which, according to the local authorities, are frequently
attacking the fishermen.