Municipal authorities in the tourist town of Vilankulo, in the southern Mozambican Inhambane province, are working out a project to solve the problem of soil erosion.

Minister of Science and Technology, Mrs Grace Ekpiwhre has called on African leaders to promote Genetically Modified (GM) crops to tame hunger on the continent.

Commercial agriculture in Mozambique is still far from attaining the average standards of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region because of its limited capacity of production and productivity, worsened by difficulties of exploiting the national and regional markets.

Peasants in Kenya's Siaya district are now making more money after they diversified into production of high-value crops and expanded value-added processing.

A meeting of agricultural experts, policymakers and representatives from Africa and the international community, to be held in Lusaka, Zambia from April 29-30, will culminate in the signing of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) by Zambia.

MIDENO General Manager, John B. Ndeh, has drawn the attention of the Vice Prime Minister to the fact that one of their most aching problems is the "trespass or aggressive intrusion of the Cameroon Tea Estate, CTE, on MIDENO land

The course for a successful farming season in 2008 has been charted with the Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Jean Nkuete stating government's commitment to significantly lift the living standards of the population.

Raphael Mjoba, 31, started a love affair with the moringa tree when he was barely in his teens. Growing up in Taita Taveta, his parents would send him to pluck the salty leaves, which would be transported to Nairobi's Ngara

The Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Agriculture, Jean Nkuete, has announced the re-birth of the Agro-pastoral Show in 2009 to be hosted by Ebolowa.

World prices for grain are threatening to go out of control. There is an outcry that diversion of resources from food crops to bio-fuel is partly to blame for the high grain commodity prices, especially in the US where government

The amount of coffee sold through direct sales is set to double this year, sources at the Coffee Board of Kenya have said.

So it came to pass that on Thursday April 17, the Minister of Food and Agriculture, Mr. Ernest Debrah told journalists at the meet the presse that the soaring food prices is a global one and the determinant factors are

The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Mr. Ernest Debrah has indicated that with the worsening world food crises there is little the government can do to salvage the high prices of imported foodstuffs, especially rice.

Leaders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have decided to set up a Task Force of Ministers of Trade, Agriculture and Finance mandated to achieve food security in the region.

At least one government soldier was killed in southern Somalia Friday as heavily-armed militias stormed a compound where CARE International stored food aid, sources said.

The Horn of Africa is staring hunger in the face if rains do not fail this month.

Just in time to plan summer vegetable gardens, a fantastic resource for tomato-growing fanatics hits the stands (and the e-book market.) How to Grow Juicy Tasty Tomatoes, by Annette Welsford and Lucia Grimmer, details every aspect of tomato growing in

FARMERS in Kamuli district have rejected a new cotton policy adopted by the buyers in Busoga. Under the 'cotton zoning' system, the buyers resolved to subdivide the region's major cotton producing areas into four zones, each with a sole ginnery

Milk delivery to the Kenya Co-operative Creameries Eldoret plant is picking up following the onset of the long rains in the region.

INDIGENOUS Banyoro and migrant Bakiga in Kibaale should live harmoniously, President Yoweri Museveni has advised.