Agriculture

Products like honey and nuts can be sold. Plants and plant fiber can be used to create furniture, cloth, and crafts; herbs processed to make herbal remedies and leaves and flowers sold for ornamental uses. All this contributes to income generation and is a valuable

The ban on cashew nuts exports has resulted in a gap in Tanzania’s balance of payments, widening the deficit by about $500 million in the month of November last year. The monthly economic review of the Central Bank of Tanzania (BoT) for December 2018 has

The plan is still on, like we said earlier, we selected 10 commodities now, last year we did first 10 export certification value chain out of which we did the Improvement Initiative of 3, that is vegetable, Sesame, and Hibiscus, this time we are doing

Dry weather in most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa growing regions last week could hinder the development of the April-to-September mid-crop, farmers said on Monday. The world’s top cocoa producer is in the midst of the dry season, which runs from November to late February. Harmattan

Nigeria has commenced a historic process of leading other African nations on smart and innovative agriculture with the recent application seeking the commercial release of the genetically modified insect-resistant cowpea. If approved, the pod borer-resistant (PBR) cowpea will become the nation’s first genetically modified food

What goes around comes around! Green manure cover crops – or GMCCs, as we affectionately call them – have some history. The idea to grow plants that protect the soil and improve its fertility dates back some two to three decades at least, if not

Rainfall and the availability of water were expected to have the biggest impact on vegetable production this year. Other challenges included input cost increases and limited consumer spending power, which, in turn, were expected to put pressure on producer prices and farmers’ profitability. Lindie Stroebel,

TAAT, which has a goal of aiding agricultural productivity through a scale-up of proven technologies, is a priority of the bank’s agricultural transformation agenda also called Feed Africa Strategy. What are some of the bottlenecks to economic growth through agriculture in Africa? Major bottlenecks hindering

The Chinese Ambassador in Rwanda, Henry Rao Hongwei, has assured Rwandan coffee and tea producers of the ready market in the Asian nation. He was speaking during a visit to Rwanda Farmers Coffee Company (RFCC), a coffee roasting plant located at National Agricultural Export Development