Helping cassava farmers by extending crop life – CassVita.
“Normally 40 percent of the cassava harvest is lost, but with our technology, none of the harvests is lost, so that’s extra...
Ghana: CEO’s journey of building a mass-market snack-food business.
Geoffrey Fadoul, CEO of Daily Food, and his co-founder started an industrial bakery business that sells snack foods across West Africa. It...
Cocoa beans, cocoa products’ export value forecast to increase in line...
The export value of cocoa beans and cocoa-based downstream products is expected to continue to increase this year after recording an encouraging...
Fertiliser prices rise again.
Poor smallholder farmers may jointly be contributing K323 billion towards the Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) in the coming growing season, a jump...
Fertilizer Inflation Forces Overhaul of Brazil Ports, and Railways.
Brazil’s heavy dependence on fertilizer imports is leading to a major upgrade of the nation’s ports, railways and distribution centers.
COCOBOD scolds multinationals for deliberate price plummets.
The current shortage of cocoa in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire for international market supply, and its resultant low pricing, is creating suspicions...
REVEALED: An African top fertiliser producer could hold a key to...
Morocco has a large fertiliser industry with huge production capacity and international reach. It is one of the world’s top four fertiliser...
Why does the agriculture sector resist sustainable practices?
A team from the Diverfarming project analyses how institutional settings create cognitive lock-ins in decision-making for farmers when it comes to adopting...
State clears farmland purchase tied to Gates.
The Microsoft co-founder owns some 269,000 acres across dozens of states.
North Dakota's attorney general has found the sale...
Ghana reaching the world’s largest exporter of yam – GEPA.
Exports of yam tubers reached a high record of US$48million last year, according to data from the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA)...
