Category: Agriculture

Coffee earnings grew by 92 per cent at the end of February compared with the corresponding month last year as good price, high volumes and weaker shilling pushed up export volumes.

Kenyan and British parliamentarians are currently considering the ratification of a trade agreement that seeks to grant Kenyan goods unfettered access to the British market as part of new trade arrangements following the Brexit vote close to four years ago (June 2016).

Accra, Ghana//-A Workshop to discuss the proposed National Food Storage Policy has ended in Accra with a call for intensified efforts at attaining food security and sufficiency by governments in the West Africa sub region.

Researchers describe the cumulative effects of chronic malnutrition as a form of ‘slow violence’. shutterstock/ vystekimages Katharine Hall, University of Cape Town Food security experts in South Africa warned early on that the lockdown instituted to manage the spread of COVID-19 would threaten children’s nutrition.

A woman drying red chillies outside her hut in Niger State, north central Nigeria. Photo by Jorge Fernández/LightRocket via Getty Images Abiodun Olusola Omotayo, North-West University; Abeeb Babatunde Omotoso, and Saidat Adebola Daud Agriculture is an important part of development and poverty mitigation in low income countries. It depends on infrastructure such as good roads, […]

NaturalShrimp, Inc. (OTCQB: SHMP) (www.NaturalShrimp.com), an aquaculture company, which has developed and patented the first commercially operational Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) for shrimp, announced today that it has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to acquire the aquaculture assets of Hydrenesis Aquaculture, LLC for $12,500,000.

Kenya’s agriculture commodities rallied last week to reverse the trend of falling prices in the previous sales at the auction.

Nigerian food inflation, now at its highest since 2008, shows that food security is the country’s overriding problem. January’s overall inflation rate of 16.5% was the highest since mid-2017, lifted by food inflation which accelerated to 20.6%. Inflation will “certainly remain elevated over the medium term, and may actually rise in 2021,” says John Ashbourne, […]

In its latest Monthly Cocoa Market Report, the International Cocoa Organization (ICCO) has revealed that anticipations of a production surplus compounded with low levels of demand have contributed to the decline in prices in cocoa from January 2021 on the London and New York futures market.