EAC Trailing in Exportation of Bananas

Bananas

Tanzania and Uganda consume 50 per cent of bananas grown in Africa, but realise only nine per cent of the potential yield due to poor productivity due to pests and diseases.

USAID Offers Prize Money to Combat Fall Armyworm

USAID

The U.S. Agency for International Development is offering prize money for ways to combat the fall armyworm, a crop-eating pest that has spread across sub-Saharan Africa.

9million seed gap: Farmers lament, PERL advocates quality.

Pictures speak at the recently held Experience sharing and advocacy strategies review technical session on Agricultural seed, Organized by the Partnership to Engage Reform and Learning (PERL)

In a bid to ensure the use of quality seed to fill up the nine million gaps in the Agricultural sector across the country, the Partnerships to Engage Reform and Learning (PERL) held a two-day workshop on “Sharing the Experience and Advocacy Strategies Review Technical Session on Agricultural Seeds”.

Food Evolution Video

Rick is joined by journalist, author and Genetic Literacy Project executive director Jon Entine in interviewing Academy Award nominated Scott Hamilton Kennedy, director of the provocative new documentary Food Evolution, narrated by astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson.

RC Sets Target to Boost Coffee Production in Mara

Coffee

MARA Regional Commissioner (RC) Mr Adam Malima has set plans seeking to boost production of Arabica coffee from 2,000 to 10,000 tonnes per year.

Farmers’ Day: PS debunk N400m rumor

Permanent Secretary (FMARD) Dr. Bukar Hassan

·     May 8, 2018 a new date

The Permanent Secretary (PS), Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) Dr. Bukar Hassan has debunked the 400 million naira making the round as being shared among the government officials, saying it was a rumor and the new date for the event is now May 8^th, 2018.

Bank of Kigali Start-Up BK Techouse Launches Push Agricultural Platform With 500,000 Farmers Already On - Disrupting From Within

Farmers

Rwanda's largest bank decided to disrupt things from within by launching its own Fintech start-up BK TecHouse.

A Five-Point Plan to Make Buhari's Council On Food Security a Success

President Muhammadu Buhari

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has established a National Food Security Council to address challenges in the country's food and agriculture sectors. Food security is a huge problem in Nigeria. It ranks 84th out of 119 countries on the 2017 Global Hunger Index, coming in just below the Republic of Congo.

Fadama III AF and Implementation uniqueness

World Bank Task team leader of Fadama 111-AF, Dr. Adetunji Oredipe 

The constant supervision mission component of the programme has impacted positively on the project delivery, by way of identifying challenges and ability to proffer quick- win  solutions towards achieving its mandate with evidence in all the states in terms of bumper harvesting at all levels.

FADAMA III AF, Activities and Successes in the Nation’s Food Security

The Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh after an interface with World Bank team in his office

Introduction

The story of crops and livestock production in the last decade will not be completed without making reference to Federal Government (FG)-World Banking Assisted Fadama Project I, II, and III which has now been extended to Additional Financing (AF) which is tailored to the present administration’s economic diversification of eco-system agribusiness commercialization to empower and create wealth to rural dwellers.