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Fishing
AllAfrica: Nigeria: Inside Kwata's Booming Fish Market
Shiroro local government in Niger State is planning to build a tourist resort worth N200 million at Kwata, beside the tail end of the Shiroro Dam. It links up with River Kaduna. However, the council chairman, Mr. Adamu Goggo Erena said he has no plans to develop the fish market.
AllAfrica: Malawi: Kassim Kalukwete, 'I Do Not Have Maize At Home'
Kassim Kalukwete, a subsistence farmer in his 60s in the lakeshore district of Mangochi in southern Malawi said his family and many others in his village, Kungumbe, do not have food.
AllAfrica: Nigeria: UAC's Gala Sausage Roll Clinches Global Recognition
As a result of the appropriate manner of processing Gala Sausage Roll as well as its high quality It will interest you to know that Gala is no longer a local aspiration as it has been introduced to Ghana and it is doing excellently well in that West African market.
AllAfrica: Mozambique: Grain Silos Built in Tete
Six silos with the capacity to store 50,000 tonnes of grain have been built on the outskirts of the western Mozambican city of Tete, as part of the country's efforts to minimize the effects of the world food crisis, according to Leonor Neves, the Tete Provincial Director of Agriculture.
AllAfrica: Nigeria: Rice Demand Pushes Up Global Price
The price of broken rice has gone up by 13 per cent in the last one week because of demand from Nigeria, the Philippines News Agency reported yesterday.
AllAfrica: South Africa: 'We Don't Know If It's Good to Eat Moles '
Hunting for moles and other small animals to eat has become something of an art for the poor residents of White House Village informal settlement in Belhar, especially among the young boys.
AllAfrica: Uganda: Climate Change Could Affect Food Production
FOLLOWING the recent climate change talks in Poznan Poland, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for global solidarity on Climate Change but this happens not to be a situation in Uganda since we have failed to recognise climate change as a priority, yet we are vulnerable due thefact that we depend on natural resources.
AllAfrica: Uganda: Keep More Pigs - Kiyonga Advises
UGANDANS have been urged to take advantage of the overwhelming demand for pork and poultry products in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
 The Scotsman: Dan Buglass: Positive signs of growth amid the winter gloom
THAT is 2008 well and truly kicked into touch and I suspect that the majority of farmers will say good riddance to what was generally a difficult year. It is pointless attemp
 bizjournals: Agriculture
Dramatic price swings for agricultural commodities, fuel and fertilizer gave farmers motion sickness last year.
Agriculture futures trade mostly higher on CBOT
Public Comment Sought on Establishment of USDA Institute of Food and Agriculture (Federal Register)
ACE Partners to Hold 'Agriculture's Changing Face' Seminar
Jim Lowell: January's thaw could come from agriculture, midcaps, nat gas
LCR Meter in Smart Tweezers - Sponsored Link
Cambodia extends use of high-tech bio-digester for farmers
U.S. Beef Exports to Korea Down Since October
Farming Today: my programme of 2008
China exports more grain in Oct., Nov. 2008
Dairy Awards Entries Closing
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·Nigeria: Inside Kwata's Booming Fish Market
Shiroro local government in Niger State is planning to build a tourist resort worth N200 million at Kwata, beside the tail end of the Shiroro Dam. It links up with River Kaduna. However, the council chairman, Mr. Adamu Goggo Erena said he has no plans to develop the fish market.
·Mozambique: Grain Silos Built in Tete
Six silos with the capacity to store 50,000 tonnes of grain have been built on the outskirts of the western Mozambican city of Tete, as part of the country's efforts to minimize the effects of the world food crisis, according to Leonor Neves, the Tete Provincial Director of Agriculture.
·Uganda: MPs to Lobby for Banana Factory
THE parliamentary committee on finance, planning and economic development is to lobby for more funds from the Government to invest in the banana industry at Nyaruzinga in Bushenyi district.
·Uganda: Keep More Pigs - Kiyonga Advises
UGANDANS have been urged to take advantage of the overwhelming demand for pork and poultry products in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
·Angola: Prison Services to Invest in Agriculture, Cattle Breeding
The prison services will work this year in the relaunch of agricultural and cattle breeding growth points and in factories throughout the country for prisoners' self food supply, Angop learned.
·Nigeria: Flags-Off Mass Cattle Vaccination
Katsina State Governor, Ibrahim Shema, has flagged-off this year's mass cattle vaccination exercise, with assurance that he would put more efforts into livestock development and welfare of nomads in the state.
·Nigeria: Forestry Law Now to Be Enforced
Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State has assured the people of the state that his administration will enforce the forestry law of the state in order to put a stop to wanton bush burning and illegal felling of trees.
·Nigeria: Agriculture - Time to Get Serious
All industrialized economies evolved from agricultural base, and the emergence of sophisticated technologies only enhanced that base. Therefore, no right thinking government or people treat, or should treat, agriculture with levity.
·Angola: Agriculture Minister Demands Greater Competence for Coming Challenges
Angola's minister of Agriculture, Afonso Pedro Canga, on Tuesday here considered that the achievement of positive results in this sector demands greaterdiscipline, competence, rigour and professionalism by employees, ANGOP has learnt.
·Uganda: A Trying Year for Agriculture
Last year was not a pleasant one for the agriculture sector. The food crisis reached unbearable levels in many parts of the country, largely due to poor weather and a failed harvest in 2007.
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·Namibia: Opposition Claims Politicking in Drought Relief
DTA of Namibia Secretary General McHenry Venaani has called on Government officials and agencies that are currently distributing drought relief aid to stop claiming that the food is coming directly from the ruling Swapo Party.
·Nigeria: Lagos Rice Project to Stabilise Price, Create Jobs
The Lagos State rice for job programme is not all about creating job for the teeming unemployed youths in the state but to also stabilize the price of rice through increase production of the stable food in the state.
·Ghana: The Wonders And Dangers of the Cell Phone
Electronically-better minds have written informatively about the cell phone, more popularly known here as the mobile phone.
·Malawi: Kassim Kalukwete, 'I Do Not Have Maize At Home'
Kassim Kalukwete, a subsistence farmer in his 60s in the lakeshore district of Mangochi in southern Malawi said his family and many others in his village, Kungumbe, do not have food.
·Nigeria: UAC's Gala Sausage Roll Clinches Global Recognition
As a result of the appropriate manner of processing Gala Sausage Roll as well as its high quality It will interest you to know that Gala is no longer a local aspiration as it has been introduced to Ghana and it is doing excellently well in that West African market.
·Mozambique: Grain Silos Built in Tete
Six silos with the capacity to store 50,000 tonnes of grain have been built on the outskirts of the western Mozambican city of Tete, as part of the country's efforts to minimize the effects of the world food crisis, according to Leonor Neves, the Tete Provincial Director of Agriculture.
·Nigeria: Palm Oil Producers Decry Lifting of Import Ban
The Plantation Owners Forum of Nigeria (POFON) has decried the recent plan of the Federal Government to lift the ban on importation of palm oil and other related products as well as approve massive importation of such commodities.
·Namibia: Good Rains Boost Pastures
Good rains that prevailed in most of the country's 13 regions revived pastures. The generally catastrophic scenario of previous rainy seasons that saw many herds of cattle succumb to drought could thus be largely averted.
·Namibia: Farmers Jittery Over Seed
The latest National Early Warning and Food Information System (NEWFIU) paints a gloomy picture regarding production of the staple millet crop in the Kavango Region, where the bulk of subsistence farmers have expressed deep concern over shortage of seed.
·Nigeria: Rice Demand Pushes Up Global Price
The price of broken rice has gone up by 13 per cent in the last one week because of demand from Nigeria, the Philippines News Agency reported yesterday.
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·Agriculture
Dramatic price swings for agricultural commodities, fuel and fertilizer gave farmers motion sickness last year.
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·AP, Karnataka tobacco farmers told to regulate production
Tobacco farmers in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka should stick to the crop size fixed by the board and not grow surplus, even though they have been getting record prices for the past two seasons, according to Mr J. Suresh Babu, Chairman of the Tobacco Board.At the Tobacco Board Formation Day celebrations here on Friday, he sounded the note of caution to farmers in both the principal tobacco-growing States.He said the b ...
·Tobacco players back in action
GUNTUR: Murky politics among the tobacco traders' lobby has brought the auctions in Karnataka to a grinding halt. Though the prices soared to an alarming level, the Tobacco Board did not intervene to avoid antagonising the farmers, averred highly-placed sources.According to insiders in the board, a giant cigarette manufacturer has unleashed the price war on the Mysore floors with a view to cornering other competitors ...
·Central Virginia benefitting from tobacco settlement money
Some of Virginia's "tobacco settlement" money this year helped pay for cattle chutes, a set of metal bars that makes it a little easier and safer for Eric Morgan and farmers like him to do the work that leads to better herds of beef cattle.Bedford County farmers who had the right qualifications found 38 grants were available this year -- of up to $3,000 each -- when Virginia's Tobacco Commission chose to fund a Centr ...
·RAILEY: Ex-smoker likes second-hand smoke, first-hand memories
Like so many other North Carolinians, I'm ambivalent about tobacco. It's helped build churches, hospitals and colleges in this state, and it's put many a student through those colleges. It helped build Winston-Salem and many other North Carolina towns.David Payne, who grew up in Henderson, eloquently summed that up in his 1993 novel Ruin Creek. A young doctor tells the elderly owner of a tobacco warehouse in fictiona ...
·Tobacco cultivation shows no sign of abating
Tobacco cultivation shows no sign of abating in Nilphamari. Sources said, though the government is not encouraging the farmers to cultivate tobacco any more rather it is discouraging the farmers across the country to decrease it the farmers are not paying heed to it.Although the real quantity of lands on which tobacco is being cultivated in Nilphamari district for the last several years could not be known for lack of ...
·Tobacco growers urge research to improve quality
Tobacco growers have requested authorities to meet them, visit tobacco fields and research centres before taking important decisions.The growers supported existing regulatory system according to which price of tobacco crop should not be lower than that of previous year, saying it worked well as the farmers got higher returns on their crop every year.In addition to that, they said under tobacco marketing control all c ...
·Tobacco growers urge research to improve quality
Tobacco growers have requested authorities to meet them, visit tobacco fields and research centres before taking important decisions.The growers supported existing regulatory system according to which price of tobacco crop should not be lower than that of previous year, saying it worked well as the farmers got higher returns on their crop every year.In addition to that, they said under tobacco marketing control all c ...
·Tax proposal burns lawmakers, farmers
As the state government brainstorms options to counter a looming budget deficit, local politicians and those involved in the tobacco industry resoundingly oppose Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's proposed sales tax increase on cigarettes.They cite general economic malaise and particular concerns for Southside residents.Kaine announced proposals this week to address a projected $2.9 billion budget shortfall, including spending ...
·The Green Cigarette? : How one US tobacco company is trying to make users forget that its product can kill them
According to the Southeast Farm Press, organic tobacco is the biggest growth area in US tobacco production. The stuff fetches about twice the price as regular tobacco on the open market. Any tobacco without pesticide residues is more attractive than conventional in the currentmarket, said organic tobacco producer Micou Browne.Browne's company, Organic Smoke Inc., bought twice as much leaf in the past year. But th ...
·Tobacco states weigh higher cigarette taxes to plug budget gaps, but some old habits remain
Two of the nation's top tobacco-producing states are weighing whether to raise cigarette taxes to plug budget deficits that have sent politicians scavenging for sources of revenue.The governors of Virginia and Kentucky have each proposed raising their cigarette taxes -- each currently 30 cents per pack -- to help offset revenue shortfalls of $2.9 billion and $456 million, respectively.Such a move was once unthinkable ...
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