Agriculture

Morocco’s governing council chaired by Head of Government Aziz Akhannouch, adopted a draft decree to temporarily suspend import duties on domestic cattle on Wednesday October 19. The draft decree seeks …

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 …