By Dr Theo De Jager South Africa : Any assistance to farmers during the current lockdown should be welcomed. The fact that agriculture is excluded from the strict lockdown regulations, has ...
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Video available at: <https://fluff.bris.ac.uk/fluff/u3/ficmc/YtxgGUtg2kWq4W782EZAXQuGj/ The tiny hairs found on plant roots play a pivotal role in helping reduce soil erosion, a new study has ...
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Zymoseptoria tritici, the cause of Septoria tritici in wheat, treated with C18-SMe2+ CREDIT: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER Pathogenic fungi pose a huge and growing threat to global food security. ...
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Rice is a staple in Nigeria, and the country consumes almost 7 million tonnes of it a year. That's a lot of rice, and in order to keep up with demand, the country has imported huge amounts of the ...
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Comment by Paul Makube, Senior Agricultural economist at FNB Agri-Business South Africa’s Crop Estimates Committee (CEC) made a further upward adjustment to its 2019/20 crop estimates by raising ...
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Fresh-cut salads and other vegetables now have an extra ally to grow and develop at their best throughout their life cycle. Arrigoni, a leading international company in the production of technical ...
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In Cameroon, new seed varieties help cocoa crops bloom and farmers thrive Antoine Mani Tonye sinks his thumb into the red soil to gauge how deep to plant the next seedling. The Cameroonian ...
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Sierra Leone will look to the African Development Bank to stimulate agribusiness development in the country with a focus on rice production, its president Maada Bio told a visiting delegation led by ...
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South Africa continues to be a global pacesetter in many aspects of agriculture. This was evident from many of the presentations on the first day of the inaugural Africa Agri Tech Conference and ...
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By Eric Kimunguyi, CEO, Agrochemicals Association of Kenya The modern world is built on chemicals, be it medicines we apply, or cleaning fluids, crop protection products, or the raw materials for ...
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