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.

Sokoto Sesame farmers pleaded Gov for quality seeds

Sokoto Sesame farmers group picture

The Sokoto sesame seed farmers have passionately demanded from the State Government improved sesame seeds for planting during the ongoing dry season saying it was an economic crop that is in high demand in the international market, and first in the export earning among others agricultural crops in the country.

Central African Republic: Fish Farming Project Helps Refugees Feed Themselves

Cameroon

The United Nations says humanitarian needs in refugee camps in Cameroon are increasing, exceeding the means available to take care of the growing number of refugees.

Ethiopia: Ministry Strives to Empower Pastoral, Semi-Pastoral Society

Farmers

ADDIS ABABA- Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries (MoLF) said that it has been working to transform the lives of pastoralist and semi-pastoralist people particularly in drought prone areas of Oromia, Somali, Afar and South Nations Nationalities and People states over the past two quarters of this fiscal year.

Pix @ 12th Dec. 2017 sesame seed farmers training at Sokoto. Upper table and cross section. Farmers were taken through best agricultural practice for better yield from 300kg-500kg to I. 3 tons per hectare so as to meet market demand.

Pix @ 12th Dec. 2017 sesame seed farmers training at Sokoto. Upper table and cross section. Farmers were taken through best agricultural practice for better yield from 300kg-500kg to I. 3 tons per hectare so as to meet market demand.

Pix @ 12th Dec. 2017 sesame seed farmers training at Sokoto. Upper table and cross section. Farmers were taken through best agricultural practice for better yield from 300kg-500kg to I. 3 tons per hectare so as to meet market demand.

Africa: Better Soil Could Trap As Much Planet-Warming Carbon As Transport Produces - Study

Better Soil

The extra carbon that could be stored from rejuvenated soil is equivalent to 3 to 7 billion tonnes of planet-warming carbon dioxide.

Kenya: Why It's Too Early to Write Off Coffee As a Top Income Earner

 Coffee

Every morning, George Kamau wakes up to tend to his coffee farm before carrying out any other business.

He makes sure the trees are free from diseases and pests before joining his wife in their retail shop. The kiosk is located at the edge of his one-acre farm that borders the busy Karatina-Sagana Road.

South Africa Poultry Group Calls for Probe of Forced Labour in Brazil

Chicken

South Africa's poultry industry body has asked the government to investigate allegations of forced labour in the sector in Brazil, the world's largest poultry exporter.