Nigeria Purchases 25,000 Tonnes of Grain

A new regulation that requires importers name to be in Arabic on imported products has been published, reports USDA-FAS. Stick-on…

He said the fertilizers were sold to farmers at N1,000 ($8.62) per bag, and NPK was sold to farmers at…

Nigeria’s National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has banned the sale and supply of 30 agrochemical…

South Africa’s 2007/08 sugar season is estimated to have produced 19.72 million tons of sugarcane, a 2.7% drop from last…

The multi-purpose plant, which could grow on Kenya’s vast areas of semi-arid land, also could meet a range of critical…

Power outages have disrupted irrigated wheat farming, lowering harvests to two-thirds of required amounts, and creating chronic bread shortages. Formerly…

Central to the program is a plan to provide credit to cotton farmers, textile manufacturers, and ginners at an 8%…

The total area planted to oilseeds in the 2006/07 season was 670,000 hectares (Ha), an increase of 89,000 Ha from…

Starting this season, the country has a new regulatory framework for buyers and merchants of cotton which aims to encourage…