Africa Gets New Corn Varieties

Nigeria, the world’s fourth-largest cocoa exporter (following Ivory Coast, Ghana and Indonesia), may produce about 360,000 metric tons this season,…

Following reports of farms attacked in Rwanda by a new viral banana disease — the banana bunchy top virus —…

The Association of Agricultural Research Institutions in the Near East and North Africa (AARINENA) was established in 1985 to strengthen…

The countries of North Africa (Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt), like the rest of Africa, face severe problems…

Economic concerns have caused Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’adua to make funds available to the agricultural sector, specifically aimed towards…

Estimates from the US Department of Agriculture Foreign Agriculture Service indicate that about 3 million hectares of grains have been planted…

Nigeria’s Bauchi State government has set aside over US $13 million for the purchase of fertilizer and other agricultural inputs…

The price of broken rice has gone up by 13% in the last week because of demand from Nigeria, reported…

Africa’s cotton producing countries are ready to block any global trade deal that fails to address their interests on cotton,…