A group of South African farmers arrived in Tripoli, Libya yesterday to help revive commercial agriculture in the oil-rich north African country.

Kenya's bid for a larger share of the southern Africa fresh produce market took a fresh blow after the Angolan government banned banana imports from Kenya in a move aimed at curbing the spread of banana wilt disease in the

As the sun rises over the Nile delta, workers at a fish farm in northern Egypt open a sluice gate and sort through the thousands of wriggling tilapia that pour out of a concrete holding tank. The fish are sorted,

BLACK farming groups are calling for a major overhaul of the way their sector is funded, after Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan announced last week that the first R1bn tranche of the Land Bank's R3, 5bn recapitalisation would be released in

A new report by the government's National Joint Task Force investigating the National Agricultural and Advisory Services has detailed how over Shs80 billion meant for the institution's activities was wasted and stolen by officials. According to the report, Naads coordinators,

ZAMBIA should brace for a low crop yield next year unless the shortage of fuel being experienced in various parts of the country is reversed soon, Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) president Jarvis Zimba has said.

Stakeholders in the cheese processing business have called for regular testing of their products by the Rwanda Bureau of Standards (RBS) in order to address challenges of substandard cheese and product counterfeiting.

Abia state has been certified ready for the full implementation of the National Fadama Development project and in the next five years, $7.8million would be spent to enhance the productivity of rural farmers ona sustainable level, thereby improving their standard

A year after Justice Olatoregun-Ishola sitting at the Federal High court in Lagos asked the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to pay N10 million damage to two farmers, the Corporation is yet to comply.

THE Government will supply ox-ploughs to former IPDs under the Northern Uganda Resettlement Programme, reports Milton Olupot.

THE information minister, Kabakumba Masiko, has told the people of Bunyoro to stop growing tobacco, saying it was no longer a profitable venture.

Land preparations for the 2009/10 summer cropping season have started on a slow note in different parts of the country with scores of farmers failing to mobilise money to finance the operations.

Settlers in Mau Forest with crops on their farms will be given time to harvest, it was announced on Sunday. Forest and Wildlife minister Noah Wekesa said some of the settlers owned livestock and other property that may require more

A factory to process Sunflower into bio-diesel was inaugurated at Tema with the call on the government and financial institutions to help expand the facility.

The Common Fund for Commodities (CFC), an autonomous inter-governmental and financial institution established within the framework of the United Nations (UN), has donated $.6 million to three West African countries.

Pursuant to his uncommon desire to eradicate poverty and illiteracy in his constituency Hon. Aliyu Dikko, representing BINJI/SILAME federal constituency, Sokoto state, in the House of Representatives, recently impacted positively on the lives of his constituents through the distribution of

Esther Ekwuon sits among a group of elderly men and women all huddled around a dry acacia tree in Turkana, northwest of Kenya.

The Bombay Natural History Society of which research Dr Viblin Prakash is a deputy director and the Indian Veterinary Research Institute have come up with an alternative drug which is just as good a painkiller as the banned diclofenal without