Young farmers believe that the incubation hub would decrease post-harvest losses by bringing innovation for food security and adding value to traditional crops to turn them into cash crops.
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Farmers urged to adopt ‘lucrative’ long grain rice
Rwanda Agriculture Board (RAB) has urged rice farmers to adopt long grain rice due to its high demand and the high price it fetches. This was said on Tuesday by RAB General Director Patrick Karangwa while addressing an issue raised by farmers that they do not have market for their harvest, especially in Nyagatare.
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Hortifresh launches “Exporter-Outgrower” financial support to boost horticultural production in Ghana.
Hortifresh, a programme supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands has, as part of its mission to establish a sustainable and internationally competitive fruit and vegetable sector that contributes to inclusive food and nutrition security, launched “the Exporter-Outgrower financial product to boost horticultural production and export in Ghana”.
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52 year old farmer dies whiles preparing land for Okro farm
A fifty-two year old farmer has met his untimely death in Atobriso No. 2, a farming community in the Kwaebibirem municipality of the Eastern region while preparing a piece of land for okro production.
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Husbandry and agriculture mechanization to boost yield in Rwanda
In the past, during the dry season, small-scale farmers who depended on rainfall for farming almost become inactive and always waited for the rainy season to farm and till their lands.
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AFRICA MUST TELL ITS STORY DIFFERENTLY.
The Chief Executive Officer of the African Agribusiness Incubator Network, Dr. Alex Ariho, has joined the chorus of many in articulating very strongly that it is time for Africa to tell its story differently. “One of the key things that we need to change at continental level is telling the story of Africa differently. We must tell our story that Africa is not a continent of beneficiaries or beggars but a continent of potential partners” he said.
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INSTITUTES AUTOMATED SYSTEM OF PAYMENT TO SAVE OUR LIVES – COCOA PURCHASING CLERKS DECRIES.
Cocoa purchasing clerks in the Kwabibirem district in the Eastern Region are calling for the introduction of automated payment systems for business transaction as their lives are in constant danger of being attacked by armed robbers in the course of their work.
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CHAMBER OF AGRIBUSINESS GHANA AWARDS DESERVING STAKEHOLDERS IN AGRIBUSINESS.
The Chamber of Agribusiness Ghana has honored the efforts and contributions of distinguished and deserving agribusinesses in Ghana on Friday the 21st December 2018, at Ange Hill Hotel in Accra.
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CLASHES BETWEEN NIGERIAN FARMERS AND HERDERS HAVE KILLED MORE THAN THREE THOUSANDS SIX HUNDRED, AMNESTY SAYS.
Clashes between Nigerian farmers and herders killed at least 3,641 people in the past three years, with more than half of the deaths occurring in 2018, Amnesty International said.
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GUNMEN ATTACK POULTRY FARM, THREE KILLED.
According to Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigire, the attackers jumped over the perimeter fence to gain access to the chicken.
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