South Africa’s agriculture GDP still came out impressive in the 3rd quarter 2020 at 18.5% quarter-on-quarter (q/q) seasonally adjusted annualised with a 0.6 percentage point contribution, according to Statistics South Africa (StatsSA). Again, field and horticulture crops, as well as animal ...

Abeco Tanks is making waves in the African water storage market as they announce having just completed their biggest tank in Africa. The tank - equivalent to two tennis courts in surface area - holds a whopping 5.8 Million litres of water and together with a 3 million litre supplementary tank ...

How Africa can become the breadbasket of the world. Of course, it is not possible to make sweeping judgements about Africa, both in terms of its tertiary extension and its cultural differences, this make it difficult to find individual causes for the current situation. Surely someone from ...

The 2nd in a series of special webinars from IsDB and ITFC explored how 4IR solutions can transform supply chains and boost the flow of agricultural trade across borders The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) (Agriculture Division) in ...

The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) again left the repo rate unchanged at a record low of 3.5% in its November 2020 meeting. The SARB’s inflation forecast indicates that it will be below the mid-point of the 3% to 6% range due to the slow economic recovery. This implies limited upside for ...

On International Day of Rural Women, BKT takes us on a unique journey into one of the most historic Italian companies in agro-machinery industry.Here is the first-hand testimony of Rossella Guizzardi and her daughter Alice,from Meccanica Guizzardi in Granarolo (Northern Italy). Gender equality ...

While the virtual stands are being set up by the exhibiting companies and the registration of visitors to the EDP platform continue at full speed, the thematic events that will take place online during the exhibition, from 11 to 15 November, are also being defined. To date, more than 70 meetings ...

Hundreds of farmers are benefitting from a project that repurposes degraded forest land For years, Christiana Akwabea admired the vast fields she visited in neighboring districts to buy maize for reselling and dreamed of one day owning a plot of land where she could grow the staple crop.But ...

Agriculture is more diverse than almost any other industry. A wide variety of factors often confronts farmers with decisions that are not easy to make. Whether it is the right choice of tillage, seeding time, seeding quantity, harrow timing, etc. Above all, however, when the decision has to be ...

In the last 12 months, food security has been under serious threat from devastating swarms of locusts, destroying crops from East Africa to the Arabian Gulf. With experts warning of a “rolling emergency”1 that could endanger harvests across the regions for the rest of the year, governments and ...