Category: AGRI-CHEM

FIAN International has thrown its support behind calls to repeal a law in Ghana that peasants fear would criminalize them for saving, using, exchanging, modifying, and selling their own seeds and lead to the expansion of corporate control over Ghanian agriculture and food systems. “It is utmost urgent that the Ghana government promote and protect…

BULAWAYO peri-urban farmers have decried the exorbitant prices of maize seed and fertilizer. The rains which fall in the city Wednesday have stampeded farmers into buying farming inputs. Due to the economic hardships experiencing many Zimbabweans, urban farming has become a common practice. A survey conducted by NewZimbabwe.com in some farming inputs selling shops revealed…

It is important for farmers to grow crops out of quality seed which is either open pollinated or highbred seed in order to obtain good yields. However, in Uganda the seed system is being managed by the informal sector where checks for quality seed system along the value chain is infiltrated by adulterated seed making…

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) is investing $2.5 million in Sanergy. The U.S. Company will use the funding to produce fertilizer for agriculture and insect protein for animal feed in several African countries, including Kenya. A new investor is interested in Sanergy. The U.S. Company is promoting an innovative approach to the circular economy…

I have always loved farming. My passion comes from growing up in rural western Kenya, where I braved chilly Saturday mornings to till a small piece of land that my family owned. It was near a stream, and we cultivated maize, beans, sorghum, vegetables, and arrowroots, which are a tuber loved by many Kenyans. Nothing beats…

Ethiopian Agricultural Business Corporation said it has distributed agricultural inputs worth over $600 million to farmers all over the country during the Ethiopian fiscal year concluded on July 7, 2021. The agricultural inputs are aimed at helping in farming activities at all levels. Speaking at a press conference, Kifle Woldemariam, CEO of Ethiopian Agricultural Business…

Uganda on  formed a special committee to investigate the efficacy of agrochemicals, acaricides and other agriculture inputs following a public outcry. Agriculture minister Frank Tumwebaze told reporters that the outcome of the committee, which is comprised of eminent scientists, will inform the next course of action by the government. “Whereas application of agrochemicals in agriculture…

The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), in partnership with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), on Wednesday, empowered 150 rice farmers with improved rice seeds and other farm inputs in Edo State. Distributing the farm inputs to the farmers in Benin, Hajia Karima Babangida, Director, Federal Department of Agriculture, Abuja, said the effort…

A new study examining the benefits of seed production by good farmers suggests that women need more support to participate in contract farming. CABI-led research — trying to evaluate the benefits of good things Farmer seed Tanzania’s Good Seed Initiative Case Study Production — Approximately 70% of the labor to grow African indigenous vegetables (AIV) Woman Only 10-30% of contract…

Agrochemical prices in South Africa continued on an upward trajectory during the past year, and should this trend continue, farmers could expect to pay much more for inputs during the 2021/2022 summer grain production season. This was according to Ikageng Maluleke, Grain SA economist, who said agrochemical prices, including that of fertilisers, remained high due…