'Tobacco Mafia' Covering Up TIMB Rot
263Chat
The Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) CEO Emmanuel Matsvaire who has been accused of several allegations is reportedly being shielded by the company board chair Patrick… Read more »
Panic As Mysterious Disease Affect Cloves
Daily News
A mysterious disease is affecting growth of cloves, Zanzibar's major export crop causing panic among farmers in Unguja and Pemba. Read more »
Lindi Farmers Eye Commercial Cassava Farming
Daily News
FARMERS in Lindi Region are planning to start commercial cassava farming by using improved varieties to generate more profit from their farms. Read more »
President Museveni Donates Machinery Worth 400m to Masaka Farmers
Nile Post
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has today afternoon visited Bukoto Central Youth Link Coffee Factory at Kamuzinda village in Kyanamukaka sub-county, Masaka district where he urged… Read more »
RETRAP Begins Weeklong Training At CARI
New Dawn
The Ministry of Agriculture under its RETRAP Project has begun a weeklong training on improving productivity and market access for smallholder farmers at the Central Agriculture… Read more »
Let's Ban Rice Importation !!... to Boost Local Production for Self-Sufficiency ...Jospong Urges Govt
Ghanaian Times
The Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies, Dr Joseph Siaw Adjepong, has challenged Ghana to learn from the Nigerian experience and become self-sufficient in rice production. Read more »
Database Formed to Identify Tea Farmers
Daily News
THE government has launched a database for tea stakeholders that will help to identify farmers and get important information relating to their activity so as to improve production… Read more »
New Cassava Varieties Attract More Farmers
Daily News
FARMERS in Lindi region plan to embark on cassava farming businesses to generate more profit. Read more »
Farmers' Market Sabotage, Inflation and Price Disorientation As Govt Wheat Export Story Hits News [analysis]
Addis Standard
For outside onlookers, when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed officially unveiled the country's plan to export wheat to neighboring countries from products in Bale zone, announcing the… Read more »
Cocoa Farmers Suffer Falling Incomes as Chocolate Makers Reap Profits - Oxfam
VOA
The world's biggest chocolate producers are enjoying large profits while failing to pass on the benefits to cocoa farmers, many of whom are suffering falling incomes and worsening… Read more »
Tunisia's Date Exports Down By 2.3% in Volume and 4.4% in Value
Tunis Afrique Presse
Exports of Tunisian dates have decreased by 2.3% in volume to 100,100 tonnes and by 4.4% in value to TND 599,400 million, from the beginning of the season until the end of April… Read more »
Tomato Ansal F1 Is a Game-Changer for Farmers in Uganda
Nile Post
Tomatoes are one of the most widely consumed vegetables globally, and Uganda is no exception. Read more »
Chocolate Giants Reap Huge Profits As Promises to Improve Farmers' Incomes 'Ring Hollow' [press release]
Oxfam
Ghanaian cocoa farmers' paltry incomes fell on average by 16 percent since the start of the pandemic --while the confectionary profits of the four biggest public chocolate… Read more »
Parliament Grills Grain Marketing Board Over Money Owed to Farmers
New Zimbabwe
Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands, Agriculture, Water, Fisheries and Rural Resettlement has raised red flags over late payments to farmers and transporters by the Grain… Read more »
How Can Uganda Get Out of the Cycle of Relying On Kenya Buying Its Milk? [opinion]
Nile Post
This seems to be a cyclical problem that continues and will continue to occur untill a sustainable solution is found. Read more »