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AllAfrica: Uganda: Region Eyes More Organic Coffee
The local coffee farmers have intensified efforts to grow more organic coffee to tap into the higher price the world market offers for organically produced products.
AllAfrica: Uganda: Makerere to Train Local Animal Farmers
The faculty of veterinary medicine at Makerere University has launched an institute to train students to provide local farmers with practical knowledge on animal keeping.
AllAfrica: Nigeria: Wild Plant May Provide Energy for Poor - Report
Jatropha, a wild plant that grows well in dry areas on degraded lands and can be processed into biofuel, has potential as a low-cost energy source for poor farmers, according to a new United Nations report, which adds that further research is still needed on this crop.
AllAfrica: Nigeria: Food Security - FG Partners Cuba On Agro Technology
The Federal Government is collaborating with the Cuban Government to facilitate the transfer of a new aspect of biotechnology as a means of addressing food shortage in the country.
AllAfrica: Rwanda: WFP Pledges More Agricultural Support
The World Food Program (WFP) will continue efforts geared at boosting agricultural production in Rwanda, the organisation's Executive Director, Josette Sheeran said, yesterday.
AllAfrica: South Africa: Public-Private Partnership Delivers Rural Development
The Makhado municipality in Limpopo will switch on electricity to 50 poor households in Ha-Matsila village outside Louis Trichardt on Saturday.
AllAfrica: Namibia: New Team At IRDNC
A NEW team has been appointed to lead the Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation (IRDNC), one of Namibia's largest and oldest NGOs and a pioneer of the community-based natural resource management programmne.
AllAfrica: Angola: Luanda Govt Presents Agricultural Season Credit Programme
A workshop aimed at presenting the credit programme of the agricultural season is being held on Thursday at the Polytechnic Institute of Cacuaco District, in Luanda, ANGOP has learnt from an official source.
AllAfrica: Zambia: Parley Throws Out Agro Motion
PARLIAMENT yesterday rejected a private member's motion that sought to urge Government to remove alleged constraints in the agricultural marketing system by acclamation.
 The Scotsman: Whisky giant sees profits slide
PROFITS at Glenmorangie plummeted by 68 per cent in 2009 after the distiller continued to restructure its business following the disposal of its blended whisky arm.
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·South Africa: Bank Pioneers New Way of Farming
STANDARD Chartered Bank is providing nearly R3bn to fund agricultural production in SA, using an innovative scheme that avoids the conventional approach of asking farmers to provide a physical asset as security.
·Eritrea: Construction of Micro-Dam Within Aligidir Agricultural Project to Enable Farmers Harvest Twice a Year
The construction of a micro-dam within Aligidir Agricultural Project is making significant role in enabling the farming community to harvest twice a year, and thereby improve their socio-economic wellbeing, stated Mr. Hadish Futsum, head of the project in Biddho Construction Company.
·Namibia: Lack of Technology Hampering Farmers
The unavailability of agricultural technology in Namibia is a constraint for many farmers, especially those in the northern communal areas.
·Angola: Farmers Outline Plan to Harmonise Prices
A plan of flow and trading of the local production was approved Monday by the Angola's National Association of Peasants (UNACA)-Federation, in coastal Kwanza Sul province, aimed at harmonising prices of products traded to PRESILD, announced Tuesday the chairperson of the board of institution, David Nunes.
·Uganda: WFP to Boost Agriculture
The First Lady and Karamoja affairs state minister, Mrs. Janet Museveni, on Sunday held a meeting with the World Food Programme (WFP) boss, Josette Sheeran, at the Speke Resort Munyonyo.
·Tanzania: The 'Magic' That Will Reduce Fertilizer Reliance
The performance of the agriculture sector, which experienced a growth of 4 per cent in the last few years, should cause a shudder to stakeholders at a time when the country is all songs for the green revolution. Any measure directed towards revamping agriculture must take cognizance of the underlying causes.
·Kenya: Tea Attracts Best Prices at Weekly Auction
Cold temperatures across the country have reduced tea supplies at the weekly auction in Mombasa, signalling firm earnings for growers linked to high demand.
·Zambia: Lusaka Show Attendance Overwhelms Organisers
AS the 84th Zambia Agriculture and Commercial Show (ZACS) opens tomorrow in Lusaka, the management of the show society has been overwhelmed by the number of exhibitors as all the stands have been taken up.
·Kenya: Commodities Exchange Yet to Take Off Three Years Down the Road
Njoro farmer Samuel Gitonga believes he understands the needs of farmers in the southern Rift Valley.
·Kenya: Sh14 Billion Loan Deal with Japan Signed
Kenya and Japan have signed a loan deal in the agribusiness and water sector, confirming the Asian economic giant's quest for a stronger presence in Africa.
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·Chad: Nutrient-Rich Algae Can Boost Women's Incomes And Tackle Malnutrition - UN
A local variety of the nutrient-rich, blue-green algae known as spirulina could boost incomes for women in Chad who harvest the product as well as help fight nutrition, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported today.
·Burkina Faso: Africa and Brazil to Cross-Fertilise Agricultural Ideas
An ambitious development partnership aimed at strengthening agricultural collaboration between Africa and Brazil was launched at the 5th African Agriculture Science Week in Burkina Faso last week (21 July).
·Burkina Faso: Biofuels Could Increase Food Production, Says Report
Planting biofuel crops in Africa need not damage capacity to grow food and could even enhance food security, according to a controversial review prepared for the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA).
·South Africa: Bank Pioneers New Way of Farming
STANDARD Chartered Bank is providing nearly R3bn to fund agricultural production in SA, using an innovative scheme that avoids the conventional approach of asking farmers to provide a physical asset as security.
·East Africa: Cactus Could Feed East African Livestock, Say Scientists
A succulent, wild-growing cactus that has been widely dismissed as a noxious weed could sustain African livestock during drought, according to scientists at the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI).
·Nigeria: Uvwie Fish Ponds Declared Environmental Disasters
FISH ponds in Uvwie have been declared environmental disaster area by the Delta State Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Bello Orubebe.
·Nigeria: Wild Plant May Provide Energy for Poor - Report
Jatropha, a wild plant that grows well in dry areas on degraded lands and can be processed into biofuel, has potential as a low-cost energy source for poor farmers, according to a new United Nations report, which adds that further research is still needed on this crop.
·Nigeria: Food Security - FG Partners Cuba On Agro Technology
The Federal Government is collaborating with the Cuban Government to facilitate the transfer of a new aspect of biotechnology as a means of addressing food shortage in the country.
·Uganda: Region Eyes More Organic Coffee
The local coffee farmers have intensified efforts to grow more organic coffee to tap into the higher price the world market offers for organically produced products.
·Uganda: Makerere to Train Local Animal Farmers
The faculty of veterinary medicine at Makerere University has launched an institute to train students to provide local farmers with practical knowledge on animal keeping.
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·Whisky giant sees profits slide
PROFITS at Glenmorangie plummeted by 68 per cent in 2009 after the distiller continued to restructure its business following the disposal of its blended whisky arm.
·Treasury chief kept abreast of concerns
THE well publicised plan to balance the UK budget within the lifetime of the Parliament yesterday saw farmers' leaders from both north and south of the border meet Danny A
·Gordon's 'coming home' to head new research operation
PROFESSOR Iain Gordon, who is currently working in Australia, has been named as the chief executive designate to lead Scotland's new crop, food and land use research organ
·Shear joy of a global market
THE motto used to be "join the army and see the world" but a new version is "shear some sheep and see the world."
·John West goes east in new deal
BRITAIN is set to lose ownership of another iconic brand after John West, the canned fish firm founded in 1810 by a Scot of the same name, yesterday agreed a £568 million deal
·Phone mast rent row could hit landowners in pocket
RECENT company mergers and amalgamations in the mobile phone industry may be good news for the consumer but it is a different matter out in the country where, it is alleged, t
·Brewer at the sharp end of business awards list
TEN Scottish companies will battle it out in the UK finals of the National Business Awards, with brewer Dougal Sharp leading the way in the entrepreneur of the year category.
·Attack on cereal price speculators
RECENT pre-harvest swings in cereal prices have seen Europe's largest farmer lobby organisation, Copa-Cogeca, allege that the market is not functioning properly and that i
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·Zimbabwe tobacco sales surpass 100 mln kgs
Zimbabwes tobacco deliveries to the auction floors last week surpassed the 100 million-kg mark for the first time in eight years.There is now renewed hope that the deliveries could reach the new target of 114 million kg that was set by the industry recently, the Herald said on Tuesday.The Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) has had to revise its target upwards twice from the initial 77 million kg. It last mo ...
·BAGNALL: Big Tobacco and kids : You cant trust the industry around children
However, moving from children as tobacco producers to children as tobacco consumers, one can see where the concept of morality seems oddly elusive. If Philip Morris International doesnt want children in a producing role, its hard not to think it wouldnt mind them as consumers. In2008, PMIs Indonesian unit was forced to cancel its sponsorship of a concert by teen-favourite Alicia Keys after the singer complained a ...
·Kentucky burley threatened by global tobacco regulations : World health organizations proposed ban on cigarette ingredients...
Kentuckys main tobacco crop would be devastated by proposed international regulations designed to restrict the content of cigarettes, according to growers and lawmakers who are fighting the proposal.The regulations, being written by the World Health Organization as part of the international tobacco control treaty, would effectively ban the use of burley tobacco in cigarettes, opponents say. The rules could be approv ...
·Asian Tobacco Growers Call on Governments to Oppose Proposal by World Health Organization to Ban Tobacco Ingredients
Representatives of over 4 million tobacco growers across Asia called on governments to reject recent recommendations by the World Health Organization (WHO) to ban tobacco ingredients. The representatives signed a declaration at the close of the inaugural Asia Tobacco Forum, hosted by the International Tobacco Growers Association (ITGA) and Aliansi Masyarakat Tembakau Indonesia (AMTI) in Jakarta, Indonesia. The two-d ...
·Tobacco auction warehouse to reopen in Danville
Piedmont Warehouse, a former tobacco auction warehouse, plans to reopen in August to give growers an alternative for selling their tobacco.If successful, the warehouse could mean more money in pocket for growers and an economic boost for Danville. Tobacco was last sold in the 125,000-square-foot warehouse in 1971."Its too good of a building and represents too much opportunity to just let it slip," said warehouse ope ...
·Tobacco productivity up
Tobacco output per hectare rose from 600 kilos in 2000 to 1.3 tonnes last year, says a crop processing company. The growth has resulted in an increase in incomes for growers per hectare to Sh3.2 million from Sh934,500 in 2003, Alliance One Tobacco Tanzania Ltd (AOTTL) managing director Graham Kayes said in a statement recently.According to him, the productivity rose because farming had been modernised.
·Malawi Tobacco Unchanged at $2.01 a Kilogram for Second Week - BusinessWeek
The average price of tobacco in Malawi, the worlds largest producer of burley tobacco, was unchanged for a second week, Auction Holdings Limited said.
·NTA opposes tobacco production-reduction moves
THE National Tobacco Administration (NTA) will continue opposing any move to reduce tobacco production in the country unless government would effectively put in place measures that will counter the expected loss of jobs that could affect thousands of tobacco farmers and stakeholders.Rex Antonio P. Teoxon, department manager of the Corporate Planning Department and officer-in-charge of the Industrial Research Departme ...
·Ontario Tobacco Growers class action: Frequently Asked Questions
GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THESE CLASS ACTIONSPARTICIPATION IN THESE CLASS ACTIONSPROGRESS OF THESE CLASS ACTIONSCLASS ACTIONSGENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THESE CLASS ACTIONSQ: What are these class actions about?A: These class actions seek to recover the difference between the export price paid by the domestic manufacturers (Rothmans Benson & Hedges Inc., Imperial Tobacco Canada Limited and JTI-MacDonald Corp.) for On ...
·Ontario Tobacco Growers class action
THE CLASS ACTIONS2. RBH, ITCL and JTI have settled civil claims by the federal and provincial governments in respect of those companies roles in cross-border smuggling of tobacco. While the governments will be compensated for the losses they have sustained due to tobacco smuggling, the tobacco growers and producers, who claim they were underpaid for their crops, have not been compensated for their losses stemming fr ...
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