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Gambia: Urban Centres Under Strain as farmers Flee
Cash-strapped farmers in Gambia are flocking to towns and cities because of erratic rains in 2009 and the fact that a recently reformed system of extending loans to farmers is still not working, say NGOs and [detalii...]
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Namibia: FMD Restrictions Hurt Stock farmers
THE month-long restriction on the movement of livestock imposed on more than 200 commercial and communal farmers is a hard blow to many [detalii...]
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Namibia: Veggie farmers Need Training, Says Expert
Namibian fresh-produce farmers at all Green Schemes require training for their products to meet market standards. An international horticulture consultant from Kenya, Dr Stephen Mbithi, said during a two-day training workshop for vegetable farmers on Thursday that farmers need proper training on how to use chemicals for killing pests on their [detalii...]
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East Africa: Tanzania can be the Regions Bread Basket, Say farmers
The government needs to go an extra mile to help farmers benefit from the East African Common Market (EAC-CM), farmers [detalii...]
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Zimbabwe: Land Invaders Evict More farmers
After the recent evictions of 16 white commercial farmers two more, including Trevor Gifford the former Commercial farmers Union (CFU) Vice President, took place on Sunday [detalii...]
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Kenya: farmers Get Reprieve As AFC Shelves Auction Plan
Agricultural Finance Corporation has cancelled the planned sale of farms belonging to farmers who owe the corporation Sh2 billion in loans. AFC has instead entered into an arrangement with the farmers to continue servicing the loans and to also get further financial support. AFC Managing Director Lucas Meso said the parastatal is keen to work with the farmers to boost food [detalii...]
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Zimbabwe: Evicted White farmers Become Destitute
SOME white commercial farmers who accepted compensation from the government after their farms were seized under the violent land reform programme are now destitute, farmers representative bodies have [detalii...]
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Kenya: State to Help Cane farmers Buy Sugar Firms - Nyagah
Cane farmers have been assured of a 30 percent stake in all state owned sugar companies when they are put up for sale. Co-operative development Minister Joe Nyagah said farmers co-operatives will be facilitated through a government fund to buy shares on behalf of farmers and the amount recovered from the earnings accrued from their cane [detalii...]
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Kenya: Through Insurance, farmers Reap Even After the Drought
Maize farmers have started insuring themselves against drought in the arid Mbeere District.Through the Kilimo Salama Insurance Programme, the farmers obtain insurance for farm inputs, including seeds and [detalii...]
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Kenya: Tetu farmers Call for Change
ABOUT 100 coffee farmers of Thiriku Coffee Society in Tetu district over the weekend protested over the mismanagement of the society. Carrying coffee plant branches with unripe coffee berries, the irate farmers matched for more than one kilometer from the society headquarters protesting over financial mismanagement and accusing the society chairman Erastus Mathenge of harassment and selling their coffee without permit and authority from the farmers. The farmers demanded for Government intervention immediately. However, contacted, the chairman Mathenge dismissed the protestors accusing them of being [detalii...]
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Zimbabwe: farmers Want Govt Suspended From SADC
LAWYERS representing Zimbabwean farmers have requested the SADC Tribunal to recommend that SADC either terminate or suspend Zimbabwes membership for ignoring an earlier Tribunal order to allow peaceful residence of over 70 farmers and farmworkers on their [detalii...]
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Zimbabwe: ZINWA Urges farmers to Settle Bills
The Zimbabwe National Water Authority says farmers are not paying for water they use despite the authoritys extensive campaign to educate farmers on the importance of [detalii...]
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Benin: Empowered farmers Cultivate New Hope
In the fields of Benin, a green revolution has placed local farmers at the forefront of the battle against malnutrition. With the establishment of Association Beninoise du Moringa (ABM), Beninese farmers have expanded the production and promotion of moringa to nourish the ailing West African [detalii...]
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The farmers Share
If we want agriculture to be more eco-friendly, we have to encourage and reward the conservation practices that many farmers are already implementing on their own. The farmers Share research project was commissioned by KAP, the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, and Wild Rose Agricultural Producers of [detalii...]
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Zambia: farmers Ready to Compete
THE Zambia National farmers Union (ZNFU) has said local farmers are ready to compete with foreign traders if the playing field is [detalii...]
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Kenya: Eldoret farmers Reject New KCC Privatisation
Dairy farmers in Rift Valley have threatened to block the government from privatising the New Kenya Co-operative Creameries. The farmers have asked the Minister for Co-operatives Joseph Nyagah to stop the planned privatisation arguing that it was a scheme by some wealthy individuals to grab the companys [detalii...]
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Kenya: Kisii Coffee Thefts Worry farmers Cooperatives
Coffee farmers in Kisii county yesterday asked the government to provide security to the coffee sector to save it from collapse. The farmers protested the increasing incidences of coffee stealing at cooperative societies. They said this is making societies lose heavily. "We cant afford losing our produce now and again. We want the government to assure us of security of our produce," the farmers [detalii...]
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Kenya: Mumias Suspends Sale of Sugar to Local farmers At Reduced Prices
Mumias Sugar Company has stopped direct sale of sugar to local farmers. This means the farmers will have to dig deeper into their pockets to buy sugar. The company said took the move after realising that some farmers have been colluding with retailers to buy and later sell sugar at inflated [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Food Security - FG to Collate farmers Database
As parts of efforts in ensuring abundance food supply and even distribution of incentives to farmers in the country, the Federal Government plans to collect and collate a comprehensive farmers database in [detalii...]
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Africa: Smallholder farmers Lack Guidance to Meet Food Needs
Efforts to fight hunger and rural poverty, backed by billions of dollars, are being hampered by weak support for extension services and advice to enable smallholder farmers to produce more food and reap greater benefits from their harvest, development experts, farmers, and innovators said at a conference in Nairobi [detalii...]
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Uganda: Makerere Introduces Low Cost Irrigation Systems
Many farmers, particularly small-scale farmers who solely depend on rain as a source of water to the crops, have continued to lose 100 per cent of the crops, increasing fears of famine. These unpredictable rain patterns caused by weather changes are pushing farmers to the edge as more cases of crop failure increase in the [detalii...]
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Uganda: What Nrm Retreat Missed On Farming
In its retreat at Kyankwanzi last month, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) parliament caucus came up with some resolutions that must be of interest to farmers. They were published in Daily Monitor on October 28, 2011. The farmers role in the nations economy now seems to be finally recognised. So many of the perceived solutions to the countrys present economic problems seem to rotate around what our farmers will be doing in the coming months and [detalii...]
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Kenya: Coffee farmers in Central Earn Sh4.4 Billion
COFFEE farmers in Central Province earned Sh4.4 billion last year. According to an annual report read by Central Provincial Cooperative officer Mutugi Mwenje, Sh3.7 billion was paid to [detalii...]
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Zimbabwe: A2 farmers Must Shun Handouts
We want to commend the Government for coming up with the US30 million farming inputs scheme for communal and small-scale [detalii...]
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Zimbabwe: A2 farmers Must Shun Handouts
We want to commend the Government for coming up with the US30 million farming inputs scheme for communal and small-scale [detalii...]
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Zimbabwe: Small-Scale farmers Choose Tobacco Over Maize
Zimbabwes small-scale farmers are favouring tobacco over maize because they are paid immediately on delivery, while the Grain Marketing Board (GMB), the state-run cereal distribution monopoly, often takes months to pay for the staple, say some small-scale [detalii...]
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Kenya: Factory Wars Make Life Sweet for Cane farmers
Sugarcane farmers are sharing the spoils in a fight between two factories. The dispute has already become the subject of a court [detalii...]
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Zimbabwe: farmers Urge SADC to Intervene on Farm Invasions
Commercial farmers have once again turned to the regional human rights court of Southern Africa to try and urge the intervention of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in ongoing farm invasions and harassment of farmers in [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Ekiti Government Disburses N60 Million Loans to farmers
Ekiti State government yesterday disbursed N60 million interest free loans to 400 farmers under the states Peasant farmers Development Loan Scheme, the state governor [detalii...]
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Kenya: Poor farmers Plant Trees to Grow Wealth
farmers in drought-prone Ganze are now putting their barren land into productive use in a venture that could see them reap millions of [detalii...]
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Rwanda: farmers to Benefit As Blariwa Launches
Maize farmers are expected experience high demand for the crop following the launch of Blarirwas new small fashionable and portable Turbo king [detalii...]
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Uganda: farmers Take Over Wetland
A wetland in Kabwohe/Itendero town council in Sheema district is being reclaimed by farmers who want to use it for agricultural [detalii...]
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Botswana: Brewers Give farmers Smiles
Two of Botswanas biggest breweries are putting smiles on the faces of [detalii...]
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Kenya: farmers May Hoard Maize for Better Prices
Millers have expressed fears that farmers may hoard this years [detalii...]
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Kenya: Mwala farmers Get Training
Over 120 farmers affiliated to Mikwani community based organization in Mwala district yesterday graduated from a training on agri-business and livestock investments. Mwala divisional agri-business officer David Mutua, a facilitator said the workshop aimed at empowering farmers to form groups which can increase farm productivity in livestock and [detalii...]
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Kenya: Kisumu Court Reverts Land to Miwani farmers
The High Court in Kisumu yesterday ruled that 10,000 acres of land in Miwani be reverted to farmers. Miwani farmers had gone to court seeking nullification of the acquisition of the Miwani factory and land valued at Sh2 billion and won the case but Nagendra Saxena and Crossley Holding challenged the [detalii...]
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Africa: Pairing Up farmers With Future Climate Twins
As climate change begins to have noticeable impacts, farmers will have to adapt their practices [detalii...]
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Kenya: Bumper Harvest Now a Nightmare for farmers
Food crops worth millions of shillings are rotting on farms in the countrys grain basket of North Rift, as farmers cannot access market for the [detalii...]
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Kenya: Move to Shield farmers From Dry Spell
Ministry of Livestock officials meet on Monday morning to plan how to use funds expected from the Treasury to help buy cattle from farmers who can no longer take care of [detalii...]
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Del Potro ready to go as farmers Classic starts
The farmers Classic began Monday [detalii...]
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Kenya: Nzoia Cane farmers Demand Removal of General Manager
Sugar cane farmers in the Nzoia belt yesterday demanded the immediate removal of the Nzoia Outgrowers Company general manager Kinsley Mutali. farmers alleged that Mutali who has been at the ailing firm for the last five months "was imposed on Noco by the Kenya Sugar Board with an ulterior motive and served outside interests. Representatives of the farmers from six districts marched to the Upper Western Regional Commissioners offices in Bungoma Town where their representative Webi Misiko read out a raft of demands to OCPD Amos Cheboi and DO 11 Beatrice [detalii...]
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Uganda: farmers Root for Agric Bank
farmers have urged the Government to set up an agricultural bank, where they could access loans at low interest [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Ekiti farmers Yet to Access N1 Billion Agriculture Loan - AFAM
The National Vice President of All farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAM), Chief Tola Adepomola has called on farmers in Ekiti State to access the Federal Governments N1 billion agricultural loan lying fallow in the bank to improve their productivity in the [detalii...]
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Kenya: Setbacks to Grain Storage System
Millers and middlemen are discouraging farmers in the North Rift from selling maize under the Warehouse Receipting system, some farmers have [detalii...]
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Mickelson misses cut; Stanley leads at farmers
The tougher South Course at Torrey Pines suited Kyle Stanley just fine Friday in the farmers Insurance [detalii...]
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Kenya: Maize farmers Demand More
farmers from Rift Valley have dismissed the governments proposal to buy a 90kg bag of maize at Sh3,000. Instead, the farmers want the National Cereals and Produce Board to buy at Sh4,000 pointing out that the cost of production has increased. The chairman of Kenya National Federation of Producers in Rift Valley William Kimosong said the cost of living has increased thus farmers have to be well paid as a way of motivating them. "The cost of living has really gone up, farmers bought maize seeds and fertilizers at high prices" said Kimosong. Early this month, Agriculture PS Romeo Kiome said the government will this year buy maize at Sh3,000 per bag. "The cost of production is between Sh1,500 and Sh1,700 and when we buy maize at Sh3,000, farmers will still have made profits," said [detalii...]
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Uganda: farmers Blame Government for Soaring Poor Proceeds
As the population increases, so does the number of mouths to feed. To farmers, this means doubling their efforts to produce more food for their own consumption and having enough to sell so as to put money in their [detalii...]
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Kenya: farmers Build Feeder Roads in Quest to Sell Their Produce On Time
A group of farmers with land, know-how and plentiful crops have come together to resolve the one problem that was hobbling their incomes: the lack of road access to their local [detalii...]
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Africa: Studying farmers Efforts to Adapt
Climate change has become an important part of the development agenda. In Africa, farmers and consumers alike are feeling its effects on productivity and food [detalii...]
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Zimbabwe: Intimidation of farmers Intensifies But PM Remains Silent
The intimidation of the countrys remaining commercial farmers is once again intensifying, and there have been no attempts from the government, particularly the Prime Minister, to prevent more illegal farm [detalii...]
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Kenya: Fairtrade farmers See Rise in Earnings
Kenyan farmers under the Fairtrade umbrella - an international marketing organisation - expect their premiums to triple this season from last years pay-out of Sh460 [detalii...]
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Kenya: Sacco Defends Decision to Sell farmers Property
A savings and credit co-operative society has defended its move to auction property belonging to coffee farmers who owe it [detalii...]
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Sorghum Proving Popular With farmers
Gadam sorghum was introduced to semi-arid regions of eastern Kenya as a way for farmers to improve their food security and earn some income from marginal [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Rivers farmers Laud Govt on Agric
Rivers State government has received kudos by farmers for making agriculture and particularly cassava production its economic focal point in the next four [detalii...]
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Kenya: farmers Dump Cows for Pigs
A number of farmers in Central Kenya have turned to pig breeding as a profitable cottage industry, owing to high demand and good [detalii...]
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Zimbabwe: farmers Decry Input Costs
AS the 2011/2012 agricultural season approaches, for the first time in more than a decade, inputs such as seed, chemicals and fertilisers are in abundance, but farmers say the inputs are not [detalii...]
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Congo-Kinshasa: DRC farmers Welcome Support
farmers in the southwestern Democratic Republic of Congo are looking forward to increased production after 16 tractors and 200 ox-drawn carts were distributed across three regions in the province of [detalii...]
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Uganda: Mango farmers to Benefit From New Soft Drink Plant
At least 17,000 farmers especially those trading in mangoes, will be some of the biggest beneficiaries as Century Bottling Company moves to establish a juice manufacturing [detalii...]
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Kenya: farmers to Get Drought Resistant Potato Seeds
Plans are underway to start breeding drought resistant potato varieties to curb food shortage. Players in potato farming who were meeting at Oljoro Orok farmers Training Centre in Nyandarua West district observed that available potato varieties are only grown in the highlands. They said there is no central place where potato information can be processed and disseminated to farmers to enable them know which seeds can be planted on which soils, in which quantities and [detalii...]
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Kenya: farmers Turn to Sorghum to Boost Their Food Security
Dickson Ndaka, 65, like many farmers in Eastern Province, was not excited when extension officers brought him news of a new commercial enterprise -- Gadam sorghum [detalii...]
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Angola: Over 700 farmers Receive Agriculture Credit
At least 726 farmers, organized in associations and agriculture cooperatives, in Kwanza Norte province, benefited from financial support estimated at over 54 million Angolan [detalii...]
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Tanzania: American NGO Trains farmers Through Text Messaging
farmers in the country are reporting improved yields, thanks to training being offered by an American not-for-profit organization and United Kingdom based Frontline [detalii...]
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Africa: farmers Need Green Agriculture
farmers and civil society groups came together at COP 17 discussing climate change effects on the agricultural sector and the solutions like smart agriculture, agro-ecology and organic [detalii...]
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Kenya: Pyrethrum farmers Being Dragged Into Debt, Official Warns
The Pyrethrum Growers Association has faulted the Pyrethrum Board of Kenyas decision to pay farmers using advance payments from [detalii...]
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Africa: Genetic Discovery Could Benefit farmers
Scientists have discovered two genes in cattle that may help African farmers improve their livelihoods by preventing premature deaths in their herds from the trypanosome parasite that causes "sleeping [detalii...]
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Kenya: Small farmers Bail Out Pokot Hunger Victims
Joy and excitement filled the air when the first batch of relief food donated by peasant farmers in Nakuru and Nyandarua counties arrived in East [detalii...]
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Kenya: farmers Urge State to Increase Maize Prices
farmers who have reaped bumper harvests this year in parts of North Rift and Western are appealing to the government to pay more for their maize so middlemen dont exploit [detalii...]
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Tanzania: Crop Banks - a Saviour for farmers
MEMBERS of the Japan Agriculture Co-operative Society (YASATO) in the city of Ibaraka, most of whom are small-scale farmers and livestock keepers, never bother about crop markets or prices of farm [detalii...]
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Zimbabwe: farmers Loose Thousands Due to Improper Grading
SOME dealers are taking advantage of farmers bringing improperly graded tobacco to the auction floors by offering to buy the crop at low prices before reselling after grading [detalii...]
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Uganda: Women farmers Receive Loans in Form of Cows
Fourteen farmers in Bukomansimbi District have each received a dairy cow. The cows, all Friesian, were delivered to their homes on July 29 by Masaka Diocesan Development Organization [detalii...]
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Kenya: Officer Advises Meru farmers
An agricultural officer has urged Meru farmers to pool resources to benefit from lower prices for [detalii...]
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Kenya: farmers Insurance Scheme Expands
The companies behind an innovative micro-insurance scheme for Kenyan farmers have expanded the plan to cover not only inputs but also [detalii...]
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Kenya: farmers Amass Maize in Hope of High Prices
Poor prices have forced farmers in the North Rift to hoard millions of bags of [detalii...]
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Namibia: Uphill First Quarter for Local farmers
farmers in Namibia ploughed through a tough first quarter, with cattle marketed, milk produced and horticulture crops all [detalii...]
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Cameroon: farmers Turn Dung Into Power
AlertNet (London)-Starved of electricity but with plentiful methane-rich manure, rural livestock farmers in this heavily agricultural nation have become unlikely heroes and beneficiaries of Africas fight to curb greenhouse gas [detalii...]
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South Africa: Smallscale farmers Welcome Rains
Smallscale sugarcane farmers in Mpumalangas Nkomazi area are singing a sweet tune following good rains over the festive [detalii...]
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Zimbabwe: Tobacco farmers Bemoan Poor Prices
TOBACCO farmers are disgruntled over the prices being offered at the auction floors and are urging government to urgently intervene on the [detalii...]
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Rwanda: Varsity Helps farmers Improve Milk Production
Livestock farmers in Nyagatare District have completed training with the aim of enhancing production of quality [detalii...]
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Kenya: farmers Face Losses Over Flop in Poultry Deal
farmers who have invested thousands of shillings in what has been a lucrative poultry business for years now face an uncertain [detalii...]
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Nigeria: New Studies Show 81 Percent farmers Are Women
Researchers working with the Voices for Food Security (VFS) said a study they conducted reveal that there are more women farmers than men in [detalii...]
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South Africa: Police Minister Promises farmers More Protection
Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa has promised commercial farmers in the Western Cape more resources in the fight against [detalii...]
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Namibia: Beef farmers Launch Global Organisation
A world body, known as the World farmers Organisation (WFO) was established last week at Spier, a farm near Stellenbosch, South [detalii...]
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Tanzania: farmers Slow to Adopt Modern Equipment - DC
Tanzania has still a long way to go to implement policies and strategies to transform agriculture under the theme Agriculture First, if small scale farmers continue to use [detalii...]
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Kenya: farmers Besiege Cereals Depot
farmers on Wednesday threatened to burn down a cereals board depot in Webuye over delays in distribution of subsidised fertiliser amid corruption [detalii...]
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South Africa: farmers Urged to Support New Agriculture Project
Government needs the involvement of both small-holder and commercial farmers in implementing the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme [detalii...]
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South Africa: farmers Alarmed at Nationalization Talk
farmers union AgriSA held an emergency meeting with Department of Rural Development and Land Reform director-general Thozi Gwanya yesterday to discuss his departments proposals that productive farmland be [detalii...]
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Africa: Help Out Small farmers, Report Urges
Small-holder farmers, who make up almost all of Africas agriculture sector, need more support to reduce over-dependence on increasingly costly food imports, states a new [detalii...]
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South Africa: farmers Warn of Dirty-Water Risk for Produce Exports
farmers warned yesterday that SAs deteriorating water quality could put European export markets at [detalii...]
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Zimbabwe: GMB Warned Against Abusing farmers
Government has warned the Grain Marketing Board against ill-treating farmers at its depots nationwide and challenged it to investigate officials accused of abusing their [detalii...]
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Kenya: Costly Green Houses Stop farmers From Taking Up Technology
The high cost of green house technology is undermining small-scale farmers quest to enter modern [detalii...]
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Nigeria: farmers Target Bumper Harvest On Iita Research Tips
farmers are hopeful of increasing their yield this season, as the growth of plants show promise of a bumper harvest in the days [detalii...]
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South Africa: Small farmers Hardest Hit in Floods
Developing farmers were the worst victims of the floods that have hit various parts of the country following heavy rains over the past two weeks, a parliamentary committee said on [detalii...]
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Kenya: AFC Seeks Covers for Loans to farmers
The Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC) will start insuring loans given to farmers, hedging against defaults that have seen it write off billions of shillings in bad debt in the [detalii...]
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Kenya: farmers May Soon Receive First Drought Payout
Insurers will assess in October whether Kenyan farmers signed up to the Index-Based Livestock Insurance scheme will receive their first payment, after the worst drought in the region for 60 [detalii...]
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Kenya: New Embryo Transfer Technology to Boost Dairy farmers Fortunes
A new breeding technology is set to revolutionise the dairy industry as farmers can now have a hybrid cow capable of producing 60 litres of milk per [detalii...]
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Namibia: farmers in Debt Bondage
THE Orange River Irrigation Project (Orip) farmers who were hoping to become owners of vineyards one day will have to work on these vineyards to pay off a combined debt of over N3 million to Agribank and [detalii...]
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Uganda: farmers Boxing Clever to Get Ahead
Mayuge district has 31,000 farming families served by just nine agricultural extension workers. In Wainha village, an internet centre run by the Busoga Rural Open Source and Development Initiative is more than filling the gap in assisting [detalii...]
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Zimbabwe: Defaulting farmers Lose Property
farmers in Masvingo and Manicaland provinces are crying foul after the Cotton Company of Zimbabwe took away their property and livestock following their failure to honour contracts they entered into under an inputs support [detalii...]
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Kenya: farmers Lobby Backs GM Maize Imports
A farmers lobby has supported calls for Kenyans to adopt genetically modified crops as residents in drought-hit areas also welcomed the plan to import GM [detalii...]
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South Africa: Bank Begins Project to Help Emerging farmers
STANDARD Bank yesterday launched a R500m fund and a Stellenbosch University-based mentorship programme to help establish emerging black farmers in commercial [detalii...]