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Modernize farming to tame hunger threat

Farmers have been urged to adopt new agricultural technologies to tame rising food shortage. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the AgroFoodpack Expo, the Kenya...

Farmers in China planting maize at expense of other crops

Chinese farmers have greatly increased maize plantings this year at the expense of soya bean and other crops, including sorghum and edible beans. This was...

Call for investigation into spiking US fertiliser prices

US farmer group, the Family Farm Action Alliance, has alleged in a letter sent to the US Department of Justice that fertiliser companies in...

AGTECH LEADER NETAFIM TO ACQUIRE DUTCH GREENHOUSE COMPANY GAKON HORTICULTURAL PROJECTS

Global Acquisition by Netafim to Support Food Security and Strengthen Local Greenhouse Industry’s Access to Technology Netafim, the global leader of precision irrigation solutions and agricultural...

Irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa are consistently falling short of their promises

Irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa don’t measure up to their plans according to new research into the projects by scientists. Many of the schemes...

Valley Irrigation Acquires PrecisionKing

Valley Irrigation, The Leader in Precision Irrigation®, has acquired PrecisionKing, a Mississippi-based ag tech company with products focused on moisture monitoring, pump control and...

There’s no need to reinvent the wheel to boost growth in agriculture

The South African government should rather recast its vision of agricultural development using chapter six of the National Development Plan as a point of...

Local start-up pushes drone irrigation

A LOCAL tech start-up, Iris Dynamics, is seeking to promote drone irrigation to improve harvests at a time unpredictable weather conditions are threatening Zimbabwe’s...

WHAT AFRICA’S IRRIGATION RENAISSANCE MEANS FOR FOOD SECURITY

The situation is exacerbated by the fact that a bulk of food producers in Africa, up to33 million farmers who produce 70 percent of the food,...

6,000 Kwara farmers benefit from FADAMA inputs

About 6,000 crop and livestock farmers in Kwara State have benefited from the first round of the government and World Bank-enabled support. Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq...

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