Tanzania: MPs Happy With Govt Action On Illegal Fishing

Government warns illegal fishers.

LAWMAKERS have welcomed the government decision to curb illegal fishing but warned against measures that appear targeted at small-scale operators. Contributing to a report from the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Water tabled in the National Assembly yesterday, MPs expressed discomfort over recent actions taken by the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries against small fishers.

Rwanda: New Banana Variety to Enhance Productivity

Staff cleaning green bananas before packaging for export

A new variety of highly productive banana plants will be distributed to farmers starting next month in a bid to improve banana production and fight disease in one of the priority crops in the country.

Tanzania gets 80bn/- cassava boost

Cassava

TANZANIA’s efforts in increasing food security by having improved varieties of cassava have received a major boost of 35 million US dollars in new funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and UK aid from the United Kingdom.

Tanzania Captures Kenya's Chicks Again

Chicks

Tanzania has once again confiscated and burnt chicks from Kenya destined for its market.

Uganda: Sugar Price to Drop Further

Sugar Bag

There is good news for Uganda's sugar consumers in the coming months owed to the projected sugar in production volumes amidst increase in imports.

Lake Chad - 7 Million People Struggling With Food Insecurity - Report

Lake Chad Basin Map

A 2017 report from the United Nations (UN) Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Nigeria has pointed out that about 7 million people across the Lake Chad basin struggling with food insecurity need assistance.

EU plans to lift ban on Nigerian agricultural produce.

Group picture

·      NAQS expresses gladness

The European Union (EU) may have concluded plan to lift the ban placed on Nigerian agricultural produce as the country according to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh will make all effort to ensuring standard produce being sent abroad. Meanwhile the Nigerian Agricultural Quarantine Service (NQAS) through its Coordinating Director, Dr. Vincent Isegbe has expressed happiness of the new development for its economic impacts.

Zero Hunger: IITA set to offer solution to weed menace as stakeholders raise concerns

L-R: The Director General of IITA, Dr Nteranya Sanginga; Deputy Director General (Corporate Services), Ms. Hilde Koper; Deputy Director General (Partnership for Delivery), Dr Kenton Dashiell during a conference research-for-development in IITA-Ibadan.

A team of researchers working on the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture-managed Cassava Weed Management Project (IITA-CWMP) have said findings from the 5-year project will respond and address the problems of weeds especially in cassava farming systems.

FAO asks for $1.06 billion to fight global hunger

Director of FAO's Emergency and Rehabilitation Division and Leader of FAO's Strategic Programme on Resilience, Dominique Burgeon 

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has asked donors to renew their support in 2018 as it needs $1.06 billion to save lives and livelihoods and address acute hunger in 26 countries.

FMITI promises partnership with NAPRI, others on livestock improved productivity

The Executive Director, NARPI, Prof. C. A. M Lakpini in blue kaftan during his presentation

The momentum for livestock productivity a crusade being led by National Animal Production Research Institute ( NAPRI) in partnership with other private and public stakeholders for quality meat and fresh milk productivity gained strength yesterday as the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment (FMITI)  joined the business team towards ensuring the success of the farm models establishment in all the requested states of the federation thereby harnessing the economic potential of the sub sector into revenue generation and wealth creation.