Tanzania Sets Record in Potato Research, to Release Improved Varieties

Tanzania sets record in potato research, to release improved varieties.

Tanzania has excelled in experimental trials of high yielding and disease resistant potato varieties under a climate smart agriculture programme aimed to improve food security.

Uganda: Obot Uses His Farm to Tackle Youth Unemployment in Lira

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Rural youths in Lira district have started to embrace farming as a fulltime occupation and business. In the case of NICK OBOT, he went a notch higher to use his fish farm to train and lift the youths out of poverty, writes Arthur Matsiko.

Tanzania: Poor Quality Cashew Nut Claims Under Probe

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Authorities in Newala district, Mtwara region, have formed a committee to probe allegations that some poor quality cashew nuts have found their way into the area.

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

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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

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

Uganda: Sugar Price to Drop Further

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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

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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.

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·      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.