Happy New Year From #TeamFoodFarmNews

Happy New Year From  #TeamFoodFarmNews

The New Year is the perfect time to unfold new horizons and realizing all dreams.

Africa: Zim Earns $870m From Tobacco

Tobacco

Zimbabwe has earned $871, 2 million from 176,4 million kilogrammes of tobacco exported mainly to South Africa and China since the beginning of 2017.

Liberia: Smartphones Take Agricultural Data Collection to New Level

Farmer

The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) with support and funding from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has engaged several extension workers in a three-day training at the Central Agricultural Research Institute (CARI) in Suakoko District, Bong County.

Gambia: 60 SECCOs to Operate in 2017 / 2018 Groundnut Trade Season

Groundnut

The Management of the National Food Security, Processing and Management Corporation has informed the press that 60 Cooperative Producers' Marketing Societies have been pre-financed by the National Food Security, Processing and Management Corporation and they are currently operating.

NASS sets to probe 15% cassava bread levy

Speaker of the house of Representative, Yakubu Dogara

·        Cried out on 10m job losses with investment

The House of Representatives, National Assembly, sitting in Abuja has mandated the Committees on Agriculture and Banking/ Currency to investigate the disbursement of 10billion cassava bread fund just as they complained about job and investment losses of growers running to millions of naira due to delay in implementation.

Zambia: Lungu Commissions U.S.$5 Million Fertiliser Plant

fertiliser

THE Government expects the price of fertiliser in the country to reduce as President Edgar Lungu officially commissions the US $5 million Zambian fertiliser blending Plant at the Lusaka South Multi-Facility Economic Zone (MFEZ) today.

Zimbabwe: Mnangagwa Govt 'Orders Land Grabbers to Vacate Farms' - Report

A Tobacco farm in Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe's new minister of lands, agriculture and rural settlement, Retired Air Marshal Perrance Shiri, has reportedly ordered those who have illegally occupied farm lands to leave "immediately" or face the wrath of law.

Uganda: The Money in Making Banana Fibre Products

A hut made of dry banana fibre.

Uganda is the second largest producer of bananas after India with about 9 million tonnes produced annually. All this production creates tonnes of waste in form of stems and stocks. These are returned back to gardens to be used as fertilisers or mulching materials.

HOW TO GROW A SUNFLOWER HOUSE

SUNFLOWER HOUSE

Five steps to growing a sunflower tower: a fun summer activity your kids or grandkids will love. You’ll be blooming sprouts of sunshine in no time!

Does Your Christmas Tree Need to Be Organic Too?

Christmas tree farmworkers cutting and collecting trees

*The answer has less to do with pesticide exposure at home than ag chemicals polluting waterways where trees are grown.