Springfield Agro Limited, in partnership with Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd announced its partnership with Katsina State Government and launched the Farm-To-Folk initiative. The Farm-To-Folk initiative aims to develop agriculture and farming ecosystems in Nigeria, providing solutions for the farming community’s needs. Empowerment The $19 billion US Mahindra Group will not…
The Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (ZIPAR) says Zambian food manufacturers must up-scale production to enter lucrative export markets. This is as it emerged that Zambian exports to South Africa were unequal to that of imports from that country. ZIPAR research fellow Mwanda Phiri said local food producers…
The Food Reserve Agency (FRA) today in Lusaka announced it will buy maize from farmers at K60 for 50kg. The price offer, flying in the face of the more than K85/50kg government promised last week, provoked sharp reaction from the Zambia National Farmers’ Union (ZNFU). At the same briefing, FRA…
Botswana cattle farmer Monty Chiepe paid a new South African record price for a black Angus bull at Mequatling Angus Breeders’ 50th auction. Black Angus bull Mequatling Smokin’Jo (no WB 15 306) was sold for the record price of R140 000 (US$10 750). Chiepe has his own artificial insemination and…
There are many advantages to using old tyres, bicycle wheels, or flap doors as thoroughfares for wild animals. The maintenance of wire fences, especially where aardvarks, bush pigs or warthogs crawl through, usually places farmers into one of two groups. The first group becomes almost obsessive about it, closing each…
