The Government will settle a Sh127 million debt owed to farmers for grain deliveries made to the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) by the end of this week.

A young woman with a weary look is seated at the door of a dilapidated house, in one of the sisal estates in Rongai and Mogotio constituencies in the Rift Valley, her exhaustion typifying the misery faced by thousands of

The family of JM Kariuki has given internal refugees the go ahead to cultivate a portion of its 20-acre Kanyamwi Farm in Gilgil.

Equity Bank will give loans worth Sh1 billion to farmers growing maize and cereals, to help them buy fertiliser for the current planting season.

Goat rearing is increasingly getting popular among small scale farmers and it is not hard to understand why. A goat is a small animal.

FARMERS in each parish will have an option to use a hand tractor to plough their land, Finance Minister Ezra Suruma has said.

To assist and encourage communities to plant teak seedlings alongside food crops to strengthen the country's natural forests, which are being degraded, President John Agyekum Kufuor, in September 2001, launched the Modified Taungya system at Ayigbe, near Techiman in the

The Social Enterprise Development (SEND) Foundation, one of the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) monitoring the School Feeding Programme (SFP), has held a sensitization programme for the three main stakeholders of the programme, on its objectives and goals, to ensure a successful

It takes a housewife 14 hours to till an acre with a hoe but the walking tractor can do the job in three hours.

The demand for grain to feed chickens in some 350 industrial poultry farms in Kano State has strained human food security, officials say.

AFRICA'S vast investment opportunities and latest developments in agribusiness have little chance or are little known by would be prospective international developers something which has left the continent at the rear.

The World Agricultural Forum will be held in Uganda in 2009, marking its first World Congress outside of the United States, according to the forum.

Local millers have been hard hit by escalating wheat prices. The Sales Manager of the Bolux Group, Lazarus Lekgoanyana, says the rising wheat prices have affected their business considerably.

Survival International (SI) has lambasted government for refusing to allow Basarwa access to boreholes in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) while allowing corporate interests to drill boreholes in the park.

Amid uncontrolled increase in the price of the nation's staple food, rice, the Political Leader of Liberty Party Cllr. Charles Brumskine is demanding President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to give full account of the Rice Stabilization Fund.

Amid growing alarm over the cost of food throughout the world, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf says the solution to the alarming world wide increase in the prices of basic commodities, especially rice, lie in the ability of Liberians to return to

Agricultural output in Africa south of the Sahara will not produce larger harvests without greater use of fertilisers, says a report commissioned by the World Bank and the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation. Agriculture accounts for an average of 32%

The political leader of opposition Liberty Party (LP), Cllr. Charles Walker Brumskine has called for a reduction in the price of rice in a bid to ease the hardship faced by ordinary Liberians while expressing a vote of no confidence

Marauding elephants that escaped from the Hwange National Park, an animal sanctuary in rural southwestern Zimbabwe, are destroying any hopes among peasant farmers of a moderately successful harvest.

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