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TAHA to promote horticulture value chain in Tanzania at Agritech Expo in Arusha

“The horticulture value chain in Tanzania has a number of opportunities that ranges from manufacturers, processors input dealers, packaging industry and exporters. It is a sector that needs to be promoted to solve the unemployment crisis in our country, youth and women should consider this industry if they want to make a contribution.” This is according to Jacqueline Mkindi, Chief ...

Jan. 18, 2017

By Spintelligent (Pty) Ltd - part of Clarion Events

Agritech Expo comes to Arusha, Tanzania!

The success story of the outdoor agricultural show, Agritech Expo, is about to expand to Tanzania with the inaugural farming B2B platform taking place in the agri-hub of Arusha in January. Says Agritech Expo Tanzania event director Yolanda dos Santos: “continued agriculture economic growth in Tanzania has awoken the need to facilitate an enabling environment where suppliers, farmers of all ...

Nov. 17, 2016

By Spintelligent (Pty) Ltd - part of Clarion Events

SAGCOT on agri in Tanzania: “Someday agriculture will truly uplift the country and the region at large”

Tanzania’s Development Vision 2025 and ASDS (Agricultural Sector Development Strategy) established clear priorities for the transformation process towards a modern commercial Tanzania to be private sector-led. This is according to Mr. Geoffrey Kirenga, CEO of the SAGCOT Centre Ltd, (Southern Agricultural Corridor of Tanzania), a public-private partnership that seeks to develop the ...

Jan. 2, 2017

By Spintelligent (Pty) Ltd - part of Clarion Events

South Asia nips on agricultural research funding

South Asian countries significantly increased funding for agricultural research and development (R&D) in the last decade but the numbers fell short of set targets, says a new report. South Asia as a whole more than doubled agricultural R&D spending between 1996 and 2009, riding largely on increased research allocation in India, the largest economy in the region. But, in Bangladesh, ...

Oct. 16, 2012

By SciDev.Net

Angola, Brazil and FAO sign South-South Cooperation agreement

Angola, Brazil and FAO are to work closely together to strengthen food security in the Southern African country by boosting its agricultural and veterinary research. Under a new South-South Cooperation agreement, Angolan researchers will receive technical assistance and short-term training from the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), which played a key role in Brazil’s ...

Jan. 24, 2014

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Biobased Products, Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture – Workshop

BGBIOM has participated in 1st International Symposium on Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture, organised on 15-16 November 2019 by Balkan Environmental Association (BENA). During the Symposiums the project ENABLING has been presented at the Participants were representatives of scientific and research agricultural institutions from the Balkan region as well as from other European ...

Nov. 17, 2019

By The National Biomass Association (BGBIOM)

ARS helps preserve indigenous crops in Ecuador

An Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist is working with an international group of researchers on a project to improve the livelihoods of people in rural Ecuador by promoting the conservation and use of indigenous crops. People in and around Cotacachi, in the northern Andean highlands, have been farming for thousands of years, and the result is a stunning diversity of crops, some of them ...

Aug. 5, 2009

By The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) - USDA

Horn of Africa `should grow more climate-hardy cassava`

Farmers in the Horn of Africa should focus on growing more improved cassava varieties, which are high-yielding and resilient to drought, according to researchers. The improved varieties developed by the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and tested in Ethiopia, may help tackle famine in the Horn of Africa, an area that was severely hit by drought and hunger in ...

Jan. 17, 2013

By SciDev.Net

Floods wash away Pakistan`s crop research efforts

The recent Pakistan floods have caused substantial damage to the country's crop research, washing away new seed varieties and test crops planted in the fields, and damaging buildings and equipment, leaving the country's research institutes in disrepair. So far, the floods have killed more than 2,000 people and affected a further 21 million, killed 200,000 livestock and destroyed 4.25 million ...

Oct. 12, 2010

By SciDev.Net

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). A paper by John Kang"ara and Josiah Gitari, animal nutritionists at KARI, concludes that Opuntia species — the prickly pear or paddle cacti — have extreme tolerance to drought and ...

Jul. 27, 2010

By SciDev.Net

Advanticsys Greenhouses monitoring and control solutions at International Fair in Chile

Epssilon Networks , one of our worldwide strategic partners, have shown ADVANTICSYS greenhouses monitoring and control technologies at the Flores y Viveros International Exhibition Fair at Quillota, Chile on the 25th and 26th November 2014. By combining our complete set of dataloggers/controllers and LED dimming/control devices and wireless indoor conditions sensors, we are able to provide a ...

Nov. 27, 2014

By Advantic Sistemas y Servicios S.L

World Cocoa foundation announces new company members and new projects

The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) today welcomed five new company members to the foundation and announced the start of three new projects in Côte d"Ivoire, the world"s largest cocoa-producing country. The announcements were made during the welcoming remarks of WCF"s 17th Partnership Meeting & Roundtable Sessions in Utrecht. The World Cocoa Foundation announced that five companies have ...

May 19, 2010

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

Parasite-resistant maize developed by Kenyan scientist

Two new varieties of hybrid maize that are resistant to the deadly parasitic Striga weed have been developed by a Kenyan scientist. The weed affects cereal crops in many parts of Africa and is a major cause of crop failure in East Africa, where climate change has been driving its spread in recent years. Mathews Dida, a maize breeder in the school of agriculture and food security at Maseno ...

May 29, 2013

By SciDev.Net

Sub-Saharan Africa news in brief: 7–20 April 2011

Below is a roundup of news from or about Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 7–20 April 2011 Solar powered farms on the way Kenya is pioneering a solar powered 'green farm' — which would be the continent's first. Ephraim Mukisira, director of the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) said that all farm activities, including the growing of crops and the rearing of livestock, ...

Apr. 20, 2011

By SciDev.Net

Coconut and mango waste could help power Asia

Researchers in the United States say agricultural waste from coconut and mango farming could generate significant amounts of off-grid electricity for rural communities in South and South-East Asia. Many food crops have a tough, inedible part which cannot be used to feed livestock or fertilise fields. Examples of this material — known as 'endocarp' — include coconut, almond and ...

Mar. 22, 2012

By SciDev.Net

GM bananas could cut blindness, anaemia in East Africa

Bio-fortified bananas that could reduce blindness, diarrhoea and anaemia are a step closer, according to the preliminary results of a joint research project between Ugandan and Australian scientists. Genetically modified (GM) bananas containing genes to boost their vitamin A and iron content have been planted in Australia and Uganda over the past two years (2009–2010). The first harvest ...

Jul. 30, 2010

By SciDev.Net

Lallemand Animal Nutrition expands Ruminant Center of Excellence program with Texas A&M AgriLife Research

Lallemand Animal Nutrition and Texas A&M Agrilife Research announce a collaboration to be launched at the McGregor Research Center in McGregor, Texas. Lallemand Animal Nutrition has established partnerships worldwide as part of their Research Centers of Excellence program, to Forward the development and innovation of microbial solutions. “At Lallemand Animal Nutrition, we’re ...

Apr. 29, 2015

By Lallemand Inc.

Genome sequencing could boost African banana production

The entire genome of the banana plant has been sequenced, offering insights into its genetic evolution that could lead to significant future genetic improvements, the researchers involved have said. The study’s lead researcher, Angelique D'Hont, from the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), told SciDev.Net that the knowledge of the genome sequence ...

Jul. 31, 2012

By SciDev.Net

Cassava disease monitoring goes mobile

Mobile phones are the unlikely weapons being used to fight cassava disease in Tanzania, in a collaboration between scientists and farmers. As part of the Digital Early Warning Network (DEWN) farmers from ten districts in the Lake Zone region of Tanzania will be trained to recognise the symptoms of Cassava Mosaic Disease (CMD) and Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD). They will then send monthly ...

Jul. 10, 2009

By SciDev.Net

Sub-saharan Africa news in brief: 24 February–9 March 2011

Below is a round up of news from or about Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 24 February–9 March 2011 African Academy of Sciences appoints new president The African Academy of Sciences has selected Ahmadou Lamine Ndiaye from Senegal as its new president. Ndiaye — former vice-president of the National Academy of Science and Technology of Senegal and special advisor to the country's ...

Mar. 9, 2011

By SciDev.Net

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