- Jan- 2019 -9 JanuaryNews
Zimbabwe farmers urge cloud seeding as drought withers crops
Zimbabwe’s farmers are urging authorities to undertake cloud seeding to ease an early-season drought that’s hurting crops and destroying cattle…
Read More » - Nov- 2018 -28 NovemberLivestock
China needs more beef. South Africa’s trying to sell It
The world’s largest cattle feedlot is expanding South African beef exports beyond the Middle East to take advantage of surging…
Read More » - 8 NovemberBusiness
Tanzania targets 50% more tea output from planting new land
Tanzania aims to raise tea output by at least 47 percent in the next five years and establish an auction to…
Read More » - Oct- 2018 -24 OctoberLivestock
PIC buys into Africa’s biggest feedlot in $365 million deal
South Africa’s Public Investment Corp. and black-economic empowerment group Pelo Agricultural Ventures agreed to pay as much as 5.2 billion…
Read More » - 24 OctoberCrops
Nestle, Cargill again face suit by ex-slaves in cocoa fields
Six former child slaves from Mali who accused food producers Nestle SA and Cargill Inc. of aiding and abetting their forced labor in African…
Read More » - 1 OctoberCrops
Ivory Coast raises cocoa farmers’ pay after price recovery
Ivory Coast, the world’s biggest cocoa producer, raised farmers’ pay for the new season for the first time in two…
Read More » - Sep- 2018 -30 SeptemberCrops
African cocoa harvest begins with test for world’s top producers
The new cocoa season kicking off this week offers an opportunity for the two biggest producers to show they’re serious…
Read More » - 20 SeptemberFuture of Farming
Whose farm is it anyway? Drones give answers in top cocoa grower
In a cramped office in his parents’ backyard in Ivory Coast, Joseph-Olivier Biley is dreaming up solutions to Africa’s farming…
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