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Soil Manager App Launched to Support Farmers in Africa

Total Quality Assurance provider- Intertek, has launched a Soil Manager app that will give farmers across the continent access to a range of farming services. “There is a pressing need to support the agricultural sector in Africa in order to ensure food security. This app could revolutionize the way that farmers do business through linking farmers with fertilizer merchants and even by integrating sponsorship into the.... Read more »

Posted on : Friday , 26th August 2016

Tanzania: Netherlands Reaffirms Food Security Support to Dar

The Netherlands has affirmed that it would continue focusing on providing Tanzania with knowledge and skills on priority sector of agriculture and food security in helping the country's transformation. Deputy Head of Mission, Ms Hinke Nauta, said in Dar es Salaam recently that the agriculture and food security gained more attention because the Netherlands and Tanzania have longstanding cooperation on the sector. She noted.... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 25th August 2016

Tanzania: Increase Funding to Farming, Govt Urged

Lusaka — A researcher has called upon the Tanzania government to increase its funding for agriculture as a way of driving the country's industrialisation agenda. Agriculture, will furnish the manufacturing sector with the needed raw materials as the country seeks to become a middle income and semi-industrialised country by 2025, according to the coordinator for the department of rural economy and agriculture for the.... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 25th August 2016

Tanzania: Rice Production in Dakawa Boosted

Dakawa — Paddy production in Dakawa Ward in Mvomero District, Morogoro Region has almost tripled, following the financial support extended to producers under the Private Agricultural Sector Support's (PASS) guarantee. "We have boosted our productivity from 15 bags per acre to between 35 and 45 bags," Mr Evodis Mlokozi, a paddy grower at Dakawa Irrigation Scheme in Morogoro told journalists who visited the project,.... Read more »

Posted on : Wednesday , 24th August 2016

Tanzania: AGRA - Changing Lives of Smallholder Farmers

Augusta Madembwe is a farmer based in Ikuna, Njombe. Speaking in Mbeya during Farmer's Day (Nane Nane), recently, she confidently attributed her success to the use of improved seeds, saying this has changed her into a 'professional farmer.' "I'm a proud farmer. When done the right way, farming pays. I'm a professional farmer, thanks to the knowledge that I've gained in the last few years, on improved seeds and other available.... Read more »

Posted on : Wednesday , 24th August 2016

Tanzania: Beer Firm to Support Farmers

Mwanza — Tanzania Breweries Limited will invest 27bn/- to support farmers to boost production of local raw materials for beer, wine and spirits making. TBL Managing Director, Robert Jarrin said here last week that the funds would help barley, grapes, sorghum and maize farmers to increase their production of local materials for the beer making company which will in turn boost their growth. He said the farmers would be.... Read more »

Posted on : Tuesday , 23rd August 2016

Tanzania: Cheap Loans Help Rice Growers Triple Output

Morogoro — Paddy productivity has almost tripled among Dakawa-based growers in the last one year after the farmers accessed the financial support that helped to adhere to recommended agricultural practices. Some of the group members at the Dakawa Irrigation Scheme in the region say the bank loan has enabled them plant on time and apply fertilizers and pesticides for the bumper harvests. The loans are extended to groups of.... Read more »

Posted on : Tuesday , 23rd August 2016

Invest in small farms to prosper

Rapid urbanisation, a youth bulge, and an expanding middle class are the hallmarks of Africa’s unprecedented transformation. Some of the world’s fastest growing economies are in sub-Saharan Africa. According to most Western leaders and aid agencies, the state of Africa is no longer “a scar on the conscience of the world”. Africa’s unprecedented transformation is also spawning new and urgent challenges, many.... Read more »

Posted on : Tuesday , 23rd August 2016

Tanzania: TBL to Invest Sh27 Billion in Agriculture Sector

Mwanza — Tanzania Breweries Ltd (TBL) Group is planning to invest Sh27 billion in agriculture sector in the current financial year as a way to facilitate industrialization drive in the country. The money will enable barley, grapes, sorghum and maize farmers through providing them with seeds, extension services as well as facilitating them with access to credit, according to the company's managing director Mr Roberto Jarrin who was.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 22nd August 2016

Kenyan scientist introduce software to predict drought

Small scale farmers will now be able to accurately predict drought conditions, so that they are able to plan for it accordingly. A Kenyan scientist from Central University of Technology (CUT) in Bloemfontein has developed software to predict drought up to four years. Once in the market, the technology will be affordable for small scale farmers. South Africa has been in the grip of a devastating.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 22nd August 2016

DUPONT PIONEER TO EXPAND CORN PRODUCTION IN AFRICA

DuPont Co.'s Pioneer unit hopes to expand its hybrid corn seed partnership with African governments and aid groups to Tanzania after setting up programs for farmers to use its seed in Ethiopia and Zambia. In Ethiopia the Wilmington, Delaware-based company, the biggest supplier of hybrid corn seeds in Africa, in 2013 partnered with the government and the U.S. Agency for International Development and there are now 300,000.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 22nd August 2016

Kenya: Government Investment in Agriculture Bearing Fruit, Says CS Bett

The Jubilee Government's heavy investment in agriculture is now bearing fruit, Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Willy Bett said earlier today. Speaking this morning during the Agricultural Summit held at State House Nairobi, the Cabinet Secretary said since 2013 the Government had spent more than KSh 25.6 billion on the fertiliser subsidy programme. The programme now reaches 1.5 million farmers every planting season and the.... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 18th August 2016