5th Africa Agri Expo AAE 2022
DATE: 13 - 14 April 2022 5th Africa Agri Expo AAE 2022 – one of the leading agriculture events connecting Africa to the global agribusiness industry. Africa Agri Expo 2022, is a very well-established event promoting…
Category: Agribusiness
Liberia: LACC Investigates Agriculture Minister Cooper, Others, for Alleged Corruption
The Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission says it has placed Jeanine Milly Cooper, Minister of Agriculture, along with her deputies and all other decision making officers of the Ministry under a full scale corruption investigation for what…
AGRICULTURAL TRENDS TO WATCH IN AFRICA IN 2022
Farming, one of the world’s oldest industries, is beset by numerous challenges; scarcity of arable land, the spread of pests and diseases, biodiversity loss, and increasing climate change pressures. Another projected strain for the agricultural…
Nigeria Must Return to Agriculture for Economic Sustainability, Govt Insists
By Emma Okonji President Muhammadu Buhari has said Nigerians must return to agriculture in order to become a self-sustaining nation. Buhari who spoke recently on a national television, said agriculture could sustain the Nigerian economy,…
Zimbabwe: Zim Needs Smart Agriculture Sector Growth Strategy – UN Expert
By James Muonwa The country needs a disaggregated agricultural development plan across all sub-sectors to ensure enhanced private sector participation. United Nations specialised agency, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) agro-food systems investments and policy support…
Ghana: ‘Take Advantage Backyard Farming to Own an Agribusiness’
By Kingsle Asare The youth must take advantage of backyard farming to enter into agriculture and create their own agribusiness, Member of Parliament for Klotey Korle Constituency, Dr Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings, has said. She said snail…
Kenya: Alarm Over New Wave of Locusts
Kenya is staring at a possible crisis in the coming weeks as desert locusts land in the country after breeding near the Tanzania, Ethiopia and Somalia borders, where egg laying and hopper band formation has…
West Africa: Processing cassava into packaged products for the international market
Mohamed Diaby, founder of Citrine, at the company's processing facility Value addition has become the buzzword in agriculture as farmers and companies seek to process and package primary agricultural commodities into new products with an…
Liberia’s Farmers Trapped in Subsistence Farming Due to Lack of Agricultural Financing, a New Uncdf Study Finds
Monrovia — study carried out by the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has found that farmers in Liberia are trapped in subsistence farming because most financial institutions in…
Nigeria Targets Agriculture to Boost Economy
Shutterstock Nigeria has had a tough two years since the pandemic began. The fall in crude oil prices in 2020, on account of falling global demand and containment measures to fight the spread of COVID,…