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Ugandan firm Pearl to construct dairy factory in Kenya

 Ugandan firm Pearl Dairy Farms has announced plans to construct a dairy factory in Kenya that will be tasked with production and repackaging of milk products. The factory to be constructed in the capital Nairobi is aimed at growing Pearl’s market share in the region.   Atul Chaturvedi, the CEO of Pearl confirmed the reports and said that the initial estimate of the investment in the planned factory stands at about US$.... Read more »

Posted on : Friday , 20th November 2015

Kenyan farmers grow chives to meet growing export demand

Chives, a herb belonging to the onion family, has become the crop of choice for a group of farmers in Kenya’s Nakuru County    More than 80 farmers from Bahati constituency of Nakuru County who used to earlier farm maize and beans have switched to growing chives. Forming a group together, and in a partnership with seed company Premier Seeds and Chase Bank, they have bought greenhouses on credit in which they grow.... Read more »

Posted on : Wednesday , 18th November 2015

Egyptian firm sets up US$11mn abbatoire in Uganda

Egypt-Uganda Food Security has invested US$11mn in an abattoir near Bombo town in Luwero district, central Uganda Located about 32 km north of Kampala, the Egyptian company’s new abattoir will process and package meat, mainly beef, for both local and export markets. The abattoir has the ability to slaughter 1,000 cattle daily and can hold up to 5,000 animals. The modern facility also has coolers, skinning equipment and a processing.... Read more »

Posted on : Wednesday , 18th November 2015

Ethiopia: PM to Inaugurate the New 2 Bln Birr Dashen Brewery

Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn is scheduled to inaugurate Dashen Brewery Share Company's second beer plant tomorrow in Debre Birhan town, 120km northeast of Addis Ababa, producing the same quality of beer as Dashen's first plant in Gonder.    The new plant was constructed at a total cost of two billion birr.   "The new plant will triple the current production capacity of the brewery," Devlin Hainsworth, CEO of.... Read more »

Posted on : Wednesday , 18th November 2015

Kenya: Nakuru, China Agricultural Deal to Improve Rice Yield

Nakuru County has signed an agricultural development agreement with a county in China that will foster knowledge on rice farming on arid areas.   The Sister- City agreement with Ningxia Hui County will provide Nakuru County with the expertise on how to increase rice yields, by farming on both dry land and wetlands.   Unlike Kenya, where rice is only grown in wetlands, China produces the crop on dry land.   The agreement was.... Read more »

Posted on : Tuesday , 17th November 2015

Nawakwi Launches Poultry Grants Project

FDD President Edith Nawakwi has launched a Poultry Start-Up Grants project where she will donate over ten thousand (10000) chicks plus feed to twenty (20) organizations looking after orphans and vulnerable children in Northern Province.   And speaking when she made her first donation of 1000 chicks plus feed to Chetekela Day Care for Orphans and vulnerable Children in Kasama run by Catholic Sisters, Ms. Nawakwi said the donations were a.... Read more »

Posted on : Tuesday , 17th November 2015

Ethiopia: Livestock, Fishery Development a Means of Boosting Agricultural Productivity

Not policy, strategic or plan issues that hinders the country not able to Livestock and Fishery Development Minister Sileshi Getahun said   use from the sector and contribute much for the over all to the Gross one of the means for achieving its mission is boosting agricultural   Domestic Product (GDP) ; systemic problems.. production and productivity in which livestock and fishery are one and the most.   Livestock is a.... Read more »

Posted on : Tuesday , 17th November 2015

Ethiopia: Haile Gets Sweet Approval From Europeans for Honey Export

Legendary long distance athlete, Haile Gebresilassie, whose business portfolio is fast expanding, has now ventured into the apiculture sector with his latest honey production already earning vast interests from European nations.   Having delivered his first product in the local market labeled Haile Mar (Haile Honey), the former Atlanta and Sydney Olympics Gold Medalist is warming up for major exports to European countries including.... Read more »

Posted on : Tuesday , 17th November 2015

Ugandan firm Pearl to construct dairy factory in Kenya

Ugandan firm Pearl Dairy Farms has announced plans to construct a dairy factory in Kenya that will be tasked with production and repackaging of milk products. The factory to be constructed in the capital Nairobi is aimed at growing Pearl’s market share in the region. Atul Chaturvedi, the CEO of Pearl confirmed the reports and said that the initial estimate of the investment in the planned factory stands at about US$ 1m. “We.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 16th November 2015

East Africa Exchange to Lend Grain Farmers U.S.$70 Million

The East Africa Exchange (EAX), a regional commodities exchange warehouse receipt system, is expected to advance over $70 million in credit to smallholder grain farmers who have been starved of funding.   The EAX is a subsidiary of Africa Exchange Holdings, Ltd (AFEX), which comprises Heirs Holdings, Berggruen Holdings, 50 Ventures, and Ngali Holdings, a local investment company in Rwanda. It links farmers in East Africa to markets and.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 16th November 2015

Wienco to Invest U.S.$5 Million in Cocoa Production

An agronomist at Wienco Liberia Limited (WLL), Eric Asante Antwi, has said that the company is poised to invest US$5m in Liberia's cocoa sector to help boost the production of the crop in the country.   Antwi said this amount will be invested in the next couple of years in order to empower cocoa farmers with the requisite fertilizers and other agriculture inputs that would help increase production in the sector.   Speaking with.... Read more »

Posted on : Friday , 13th November 2015

Somabhula Farmers Cash in On Hay

"DESPERATE times call for desperate measures" is an adage that A2 farmers in Somabhula, Vungu district, now know quite well after they turned to hay bailing for a living.   With most of the country's farms having now virtually turned into grasslands because of very little production taking place on the properties ever since the land reforms in 2000, such an opportunity to turn the abundant grass into money has been most.... Read more »

Posted on : Friday , 13th November 2015



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