Agriculture

Morocco’s fertilizer giant OCP Group inaugurated this week its first ultramodern fertilizer blending plant on the continent in Kaduna, in northern Nigeria.  The aim of the new Kaduna facility is …

Tea prices at the weekly Mombasa auction rose slightly this week amid an increase in the volumes traded. At this week’s auction, a kilo averaged USD2.37(Sh287.24) up from USD2.33(Sh282.40) last …

Kenya plans to import an additional 6-million bags of fertilizer ahead of the long rainy season of March 2023. President William Ruto said his Government will import varieties of fertilizers …

Maize prices have dropped drastically below KES 5,000 for a 90Kg (kilogramme) bag for the first time in months as farmers in Kenya’s food basket, Uasin Gishu, start harvesting the …

Farmers will get access to genetically modified seeds next year as the country moves to commercialize biotechnology foods with half a million acres expected to be put under the crop …

Kenya’s miraa exports to Somalia have earned the country Sh4 billion in three months since the resumption of sales of the stimulant to the Horn of Africa nation in July …

Morocco exported 19,000 tones of table olives to the United States in the first half of 2022.  A recent report from the Office of Economic and Commercial Affairs of the …

Siaya governor, James Orengo has challenged the local residents to embrace agribusiness so as to boost food security and tackle rampant poverty.  Mr Orengo lamented that though the county and …

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the International NGO GiveDirectly have decided to provide an additional $4 million to support Moroccan agricultural cooperatives suffering from recent economic …

Tea farmers selling their produce to KTDA-managed factories recorded improved earnings in the July to mid-October period as volumes sold increased. Average prices for teas from KTDA-managed factories increased to …