INTERNATIONAL AGRIC NEWS
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Zimbabwe: GMB Moisture Content Limit Spawns Dealers – Farmers Lose Millions to Illegal Traders – Govt Input Schemes Under Threat
By Walter Nyamukondiwa A two-tier black market system has emerged outside most Grain Marketing Board (GMB) depots countrywide where grain…
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Zimbabwe: Communal Farmers Top Maize Yield – Report
By Elita Chikwati Communal farmers are leading in maize production for the 2016-17 farming season, as their output increased by…
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Tanzania: Tobacco Growers Fear Livelihood Is At Stake
By Anthony Tambwe Tobacco farmers in the country have come out into the open and demanded an audience with authorities…
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Nigeria: Bankers Committee Mobilises N26 Billion for Agric, Enterprise Equity Funding
By Chijioke Nelson and Tobi Awodipe The much expected five per cent equity funding for agriculture and enterprise from the…
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Tanzania: Cotton Contract Farming Held Back By Old Agricultural Practices
Mwanza — Contract farming may fail to boost cotton production as expected due to failure to adopt modern agricultural practices, the…
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Dutch fishermen discover world’s first two-headed porpoise
A group of fishermen accidentally discovered the world’s first two-headed porpoise, but tossed it back into the sea for fear…
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Rwanda: Irish Potato Growing Has Turned Munyaziboneye Into a Millionaire
After graduating as an accountant he got a job as a cashier but earned less than Rwf100,000 a month. The…
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Nigeria: We Will Turn Kogi to Rice, Cassava Haven – Dangote
The President of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has expressed his readiness to build the biggest agricultural company in…
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Uganda: Museveni Drip Irrigation Poses Environmental Concerns – Activist
A human rights activist, also environmentalist, Ben Kiromba Twinomugisha has criticized President Museveni for promoting the use of mineral water…
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Africa: At Ocean Conference, UN Agencies Commit to Cutting Harmful Fishing Subsidies
As the international community focuses this week on preserving the health of global oceans and seas, the United Nations agencies…
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