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.
Category: Agriculture
Kenya, British MPs Prepare to Ratify Trade Pact
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).
Ghana: Workshop On Food Storage Policy Ends In Accra
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.
COVID-19 Holds Lessons for the Future of Social Protection
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.
Poor Rural Infrastructure Holds Back Food Production by Small Nigerian Farmers
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, […]
US Firm Signs Letter of Intent to Acquire Aquaculture Assets of Hydrenesis Aquaculture
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.
Coffee and Tea Prices Rise at Weekly Auctions
Kenya’s agriculture commodities rallied last week to reverse the trend of falling prices in the previous sales at the auction.
Nigeria’s Food Inflation Shows Urgency of Cross-border Trade
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, […]
Ghana: What Do the Falling Cocoa Prices Mean For Farmers
By Masahudu Ankiilu Kunateh, African Eye Report Accra, Ghana//-Maame Esi Yeboah, a 66-year-old cocoa peasant farmer at Akweteykrom, a cocoa growing community in the Central Region likes many cocoa farmers in the country’s forested regions walk through dangerous paths to harvest their cocoa.
Downward Trend in Cocoa Prices Continues, Despite COVID-19 Vaccinations
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.