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Get the very current news on Agriculture and Farming activities in Africa.
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Jul- 2020 -8 July
Zimbabwe’s evicted white farmers offered $3.5 billion payout
Zimbabwe’s white commercial farmers, who were violently evicted from their land in a series of invasions that began two decades…
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8 July
Locust, floods and virus set Uganda for slowest year since 1986
Uganda’s economy will probably expand at the slowest pace in more than three decades this year due to the fallout…
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6 July
WAFA’s new partnership to boost West Africa fertilizer market
The West African Fertilizer Association (WAFA) has entered into a partnership with Arab Fertilizer Association (AFA) targeted at increasing the…
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3 July
Covid-19 forces 350,000 poultry farmers out of business in Ogun
No fewer than 350,000 poultry farmers have been forced out of business in Ogun State from the effects of the…
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2 July
Rise Against Hunger Africa partners with business to support communities during Covid-19
Rise Against Hunger Africa has partnered with local Cargill businesses to pack and distribute over 250,000 meals in KwaZulu Natal…
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Jun- 2020 -29 June
Heavy rains in Ivory Coast boost prospects for main cocoa harvest, but hurt mid-crop
Above-average rains last week in most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa regions bode well for the start of the next main…
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22 June
U.S. farming body and Zambian firm partner aim to boost crop yields
An American non-profit organisation has launched a $40 million joint venture with one of Zambia’s top farm suppliers to boost…
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17 June
South Africa’s Tongaat to sell eSwatini sugarcane farm for $21 million
Indebted South African sugar producer Tongaat Hulett said on Wednesday it would sell a sugarcane farm in eSwatini to the…
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