Crops
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Kenya plans to allow corn imports as supplies set to run out
Kenya may need to import some corn, its main staple food, after about two months when the agriculture ministry projects…
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Rain-short Zimbabwe fights taboo against farming drought-hardy grain
Samuel Mudziwepasi lost his entire maize crop in the last farming season, when a drought ravaged much of Zimbabwe. Now…
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Kenyan farmers battle fruit-fly menace as climate warms
Gideon Gitonga inspected his avocado orchard in central Kenya with military precision, revealing that some of the fruit were tinged…
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Banana production faces threat in East Africa
Banana, one of the staple foods in East Africa, is under threat from a fungal disease. Kagera region in Tanzania…
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Ivory Coast rain and sun to boost cocoa mid-crop
Abundant rain mixed with sunny spells in most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa regions last week will boost the mid-crop in…
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Malawi parliament okays cultivation of cannabis
In Malawi, parliament has passed a bill which allows cultivation of cannabis for industrial and medicinal purposes. Backers of the…
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How PackSolve Drums makes SA’s fruit juice industry more competitive
PackSolve’s galvanised drums are boosting the efficiencies and performance of the South African fruit juice industry. South Africa is a…
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Domestic Ivorian cocoa exporters competing with multinationals fear bankruptcy
Domestic Ivorian cocoa exporters fear going bankrupt because they cannot compete with the higher prices multinational companies are paying for…
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