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 increase last...
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 from K52...
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.
Hundreds of millions of dollars...
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 of global...
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 exporters following...
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 sustainable farming...
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 of a couple of thousand acres...
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) – making...
AfDB calls for strong investment in the youth at the 2022...
The 2022 Commonwealth Business Forum opened in Kigali, Rwanda, on Tuesday with a resounding call for action to do more to spur intra-Commonwealth trade,...
Belgium seizes 900 kilos of cocaine hidden in cocoa beans.
Belgian customs officers have seized 900kg of cocaine hidden in a shipment of cocoa beans from Colombia, their service said on Monday.
The...
