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Agriculture and farming business news in Africa.
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Zambia’s President says it’s time to transform the agriculture sector for the benefit of the people
President Edgar Lungu says time has come for Zambia to transform the agriculture sector for the benefit of the people.…
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Uganda’s fall in exports forces sugar prices to drop
A reduction in the export volume of sugar has led to a significant drop in sugarcane and sugar prices from…
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Ivory Coast and Ghana team up for greater share of chocolate wealth
Kouakou Kinimo is a pretty typical Ivory Coast cocoa farmer. He works a small holding. At 52, he’s roughly the…
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Seed Co to commission seed drier
Seed Co says it intends to commission its long awaited Artificial Maize Seed Drier locally in February 2020 with a…
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Tanzania to sell 1 million tons of corn to drought-hit Kenya
Tanzania is set to sell 1 million tons of corn to neighboring Kenya where a drought curbed production and caused…
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Ivory Coast, Ghana proposed cocoa price floor lacks other growers’ support
A cocoa price floor of $2,600 per tonne agreed by Ivory Coast and Ghana with buyers for the 2020/21 season…
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Israel firm reports first cannabis harvest from Uganda
Israeli firm, Together Pharma Limited has reported that it made a cannabis harvest from Uganda on Tuesday, despite a government…
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Top cocoa growers halt sales amid drive to agree minimum price
The world’s two biggest cocoa producers halted sales for the harvest that will begin in October 2020, pending an agreement…
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