BKT starts with the future at Agritechnica 2019 and deploys an entire fleet of tires at its stand – whether they are novelties or best sellers – they are connected by an ambitious technology project. For BKT, this topic is not a competition; it is an essential mode that pushes the company to search ...

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 to step-up a more sustainable fight against the tomato farmer’s worst enemy – the tomato leafminer, ...

BI Offer Marketing Manager Victor Strobel  Being part of the broader Hudaco Group allows Bearings International (BI) to leverage synergies across a broad range of companies, meaning it can offer a complete product basket at its extensive branch network countrywide. In order to maximise this ...

The cumulative view provided by the confluence of machine learning and decision making in conjunction with third-party data all hosted in the cloud, has given rise to artificial intelligence (AI) in agriculture. The ability of agricultural equipment to think, predict and even advise farmers ...

Mr Mostafa Terrab, OCP Group's Chairman and CEO (left), Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko, African Union Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture (middle) and Dr Hamady Diop of the AUDA-NEPAD (right)  The African Union Commission, together with the African Union’s Development Agency, AUDA-NEPAD, ...

Antois van der Westhuizen 'African farmers at the heart of tomorrow’s global economy'  The potential to increase Africa’s agricultural yields through the strategic use of data could place the continents’ farmers at the heart of tomorrow’s global economy. “New technologies readily available to ...

The Southern Africa Agri Initiative (Saai) welcomes the national treasury’s discussion document on economic policy that was released on 27 August 2019. This 62-page document focuses on five themes that will put a stop to weak economic growth and rising unemployment in the long run. A large part ...

The global municipal and irrigation pipe networks market should reach $55.5 billion by 2023 from $42.5 billion in 2018 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.5% for the period of 2018 to 2023. Report Scope: This study provides in-depth coverage of many of the most important economic, ...

The Sasakawa Association will work with the Japan International Corporation Agency (JICA), to help double rice production to 50 million tonnes by 2030.  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made the announcement at the Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA) symposium held on Wednesday during TICAD7. ...

Allow me to start with a note: 2nd to 6th of September, I will be in Accra, Ghana for AGRF 2019. Contact me to pre-schedule meetings.   When we come to improve the agriculture in Africa and Asia, the first questions we should be asking are: * What is preventing it from improving and moving ...