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Tanzania launches first mobile crop insurance scheme

 Four institutions drawn from telecommunication, seed, insurance and risk assessment have come together to unveil the first mobile crop insurance in Tanzania, at a time when changes in weather has taken a toll on farmers yields and income.   Dubbed Linda Mbegu, Swahili for protect your seeds, the cover is the brainchild of Airtel Tanzania, Agriculture and Climate Risk Enterprise Ltd (Acre) Africa, Seed Co Tanzania and UAP Insurance.... Read more »

Posted on : Friday , 7th October 2016

Tanzania Agriculture Sector Record 3.2% Growth in Q2 2016

 Tanzania’s agriculture sector grew at a rate of 3.2% in Q2 2016, reaching TZS3.8tn, compared to TZS2.5tn in Q2 2015. The results were included in a report recently issued by the Tanzanian National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), covering the country’s GDP performances Q2 2016 GDP. NBS attributes the growth in the agricultural sector to favorable rainfall in most production areas and farmers education. Tanzania Agriculture Growth.... Read more »

Posted on : Friday , 7th October 2016

Farmers to be cushioned with crop, livestock insurance - Uhuru

 President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday said the government has introduced a crop insurance scheme to cushion farmers from adverse weather conditions.   Uhuru said the insurance scheme is being tested in Bungoma, Nakuru and Embu counties.   “Indeed, a thousand farmers in these counties have already benefitted from the premium subsidy at a cost of Sh300 million,” he said.   He said his administration has also.... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 6th October 2016

Rwanda: New Digital System to Boost Agribusiness, Access to Loans

 A new digital system dubbed "e-Umuhinzi Platform" has been unveiled by a local microfinance bank to boost the agri-businesses sector and promote financial inclusion.   The platform was launched last week by Atlantis Microfinance in partnership with Agritech, a company that specialises in providing agri-business solutions.   While speaking at the launch of the platform in Kigali, Alfred Ndayisaba, the acting managing.... Read more »

Posted on : Wednesday , 5th October 2016

Now Kenya makes plans to produce industrial sugar

 Kenya plans to relax rules for the production of industrial sugar in a bid to save the economy $90 million worth of forex spent annually on imports.   Kenya will thus become the first East African Community member to produce the commodity, but experts warn that the high cost of production could render industries such as confectionery that rely on refined sugar uncompetitive across the region. Under the EAC Rules of Origin,.... Read more »

Posted on : Wednesday , 5th October 2016

Tanzania: Dodoma to Get Maize Milling Plant

 Dodoma — Dodoma Region will soon get an ultra modern factory for maize milling and oil which will employ 250 workers.   In his remarks while handing over a cheque for about 3.7 bn/- for the said factory, the Director General of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF), Professor Godius Kahyarara, said the plant will be a blessing to the people and farmers as it will be using raw materials obtained locally.   The money.... Read more »

Posted on : Tuesday , 4th October 2016

Tanzania: Coffee and Flower Growers Turn to Organic Farming

 Moshi — Coffee and flower growers seem to be ready to embrace organic farming and give up conventional agricultural practices that use synthetic pesticides and watersoluble synthetically purified fertilizers.   This comes after decades of conventional agriculture that has seen coffee production, the typical cash crop in Kilimanjaro and Arusha regions drop in quality as well as quantity.   Kilimanjaro growers underwent.... Read more »

Posted on : Tuesday , 4th October 2016

Tanzania: Farmers to Get Improved Coffee Seedlings

 Tanzania Coffee Research Institute (TaCRI) will distribute to farmers improved varieties of coffee seedlings to boost production as it marks international coffee day tomorrow.   TaCRI Technology Transfer and Training Programme Manager, Mr Jeremiah Magesa said here yesterday that the improved coffee seedlings are pest and drought resistant.   He said in various zones that cultivate coffee in the country growers will be.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 3rd October 2016

Energy experts urge Kenyan banks to help fund agri-business

 Energy experts meeting in Nairobi have asked banks in Kenya and Africa in general to open up capital for funding agri-business.   Speaking at a side event of the International Off-grid Renewable Energy Conference (IOREC) currently under way in Nairobi, three experts in the solar power sector decried the lack of capital from banks for the agricultural industry.   Kenya general manager Charles Ahenda-Bengo said a lack of.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 3rd October 2016

Tanzania: Food Vendors in Dar Sensitised On Renewable Use

 Food vendors in Dar es Salaam have been asked to embark on the use of renewable energy to boost their business productivity and income.   Speaking in Dar es Salaam yesterday, an expert and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship Development (IMED), Dr Donath Olomi, said that use of advanced source of energy was valuable in their business than the use of charcoal.   "Use of the.... Read more »

Posted on : Saturday , 1st October 2016

Commodity exchanges bring new hope to Africa’s farmers

 At the recent African Green Revolution Forum in Nairobi, one of the outstanding take-outs was that Africa may need $400 billion (Sh40 trillion) in investment in food production over the next decade to meet its needs.   But while finance is the problem, it is not the solution if we do not reorient its deployment. Many African countries and donor programmes have invested billions of dollars in the development of agriculture, focusing.... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 29th September 2016

Underwriting Africa’s future through Agriculture

 It is now widely recognized by experts and policy makers that agriculture will underwrite Africa’s promising growth prospects; that the dream of Africa rising can actually fly on the wings of the sector’s vast untapped potential across the continent.   With 60 per cent of the world’s uncultivated arable land and low crop yields, the prediction that Africa is ripe for a green revolution is no longer a far-fetched.... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 29th September 2016



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