- Jan- 2019 -11 JanuaryCrops
Ivory Coast cocoa bean quality hit by dry weather, financing woes
Farmers in top cocoa grower Ivory Coast say the current crop is worsening, with beans starting to rot, as lack…
Read More » - Nov- 2018 -29 NovemberFuture of Farming
White South African group to challenge Ramaphosa land reforms in court
A South African advocacy group that lobbies for the rights of white farmers will on Thursday challenge in court President…
Read More » - 15 NovemberCrops
Tanzanian cashew price hike could lead to global shortage, traders say
Tanzania’s plan to buy the country’s entire 2018 cashew nut crop could lead to a global shortage, with processors in…
Read More » - 6 NovemberAquaculture
Mozambique to share gas revenue in ‘tuna bond’ restructuring
Mozambique has reached an agreement with creditors to restructure a $726.5 million Eurobond, including extending maturities and sharing future revenues…
Read More » - Oct- 2018 -31 OctoberNews
Irrigation-short Africa may get $9 billion boost to spur harvests
The power of irrigation is on full display in this corner of southeastern Kenya, where an 8,000-hectare sugarcane plantation glimmers…
Read More » - 30 OctoberNews
Zimbabwe’s farmers feel the heat of fires – and of price hikes
An extended dry season, runaway wildfires and a lack of foreign currency for maize seed, fertilizer and fuel suggest Zimbabwe’s…
Read More » - 25 OctoberCrops
South African maize planting area seen expanding 6 percent
South African maize farmers intend to plant 6 percent more hectares of the staple grain in the 2018/2019 season, the…
Read More » - 23 OctoberCrops
Ivorian cocoa farmers hope for dry weather as disease flares in east
Above-average rainfall in Ivory Coast’s eastern cocoa-growing regions last week could hinder bean-drying and fuel the spread of disease, farmers…
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