Palm Buyers Urged to Work On Sustainability, Not Ban Vegetable Oil

Oil Palm

Buyers are wrong to remove palm oil from their products and should instead focus on working with sustainability schemes and smallholder farmers, an Indonesia-based conservation organisation said on Tuesday.

GMOs Might Feed the World If Only Investors Weren’t So Scared

A farmer picks genetically engineered papayas in Oahu, Hawaii.

In the basement of Koshland Hall at the University of California at Berkeley is a trove of seeds with the potential to fix some of agriculture’s most vexing problems.

Food Evolution the Trailer

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.