10 500 heads of cattle have died as a result of lack of pasture and drinking water in three southern provinces of Zimbabwe. This comes at a time when what is reportedly the worst drought in recent ...
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Rains have increasingly been torrential in the past months, striking large parts of East Africa and elsewhere, in unprecedented intensity in decades, causing at least dozens of deaths, displacement ...
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Wefarm the digital network for global small-scale agriculture, today announced it has raised $13 million in a Series A financing round led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm True Ventures . ...
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US- based agrarian equipment manufacturer AGCO and Kenya’s Equity Bank have signed a deal that will see the latter provide up to 80% financing to customers interested in acquiring Massey agricultural ...
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Farm equipment manufacturer Case IH appoints Techno Green as its distributor in Yemen / The new arrangement will increase Case IH’s presence in the Middle East and provide farmers in Yemen with ...
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Amidst extreme drought conditions in Namibia, farmers are forced to innovate to ensure the survival of their livestock. A recent study1 proves that the production of animal feed from encroacher bush ...
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Gilbert F. Houngbo, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will meet with government leaders in India this week to strengthen joint efforts to boost farmers’ incomes ...
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L to R: Joohoon Kim, Chargé d’ Affaires of the Republic of Korea in Angola; Moono Mupotola, the Bank’s Director for Regional Development & Regional Integration; Joffre Van-Dúnem Júnior, Minister ...
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A farm manager checks for Tuta absoluta on tomato crops in Kajiado County, Kenya (photo by; CABI). CABI has joined forces with world-leading biological control specialists Koppert Biological Systems ...
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The Savanna Agricultural Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-SARI) have introduced two improved high yielding groundnut seed varieties in Ghana. Dr Doris ...
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