Zimbabwe declares state of disaster due to drought
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday declared a state of disaster due to an El Nino-induced drought threatening food security in the country. “The current...
Category : Agriculture
Rwanda to host international trade fair, conference on agrifood
Rwanda is set to host Rwanda Agrofood 2024, an international trade exhibition for agriculture and food, catering to the country and its neighbouring regions. TNT...
Gov’t highlights major plans to boost food crops production
Rwanda’s agriculture sector recorded the slowest growth in 2023 at 2 per cent, with food crop production activities stagnating at 0 per cent, the latest...
Rwanda distributes high-yield bean variety to boost agriculture in Nyagatare District
Rwanda Agriculture and Animal Resources Development Board (RAB) in partnership with Nyagatare District authorities and residents, has initiated the planting of a new bean variety...
African coffee producing countries urged to add value to coffee export
While specialty coffee from Africa is gaining popularity among consumers across the world, officials of the African Fine Coffees Association (AFCA) have urged African coffee...
Spanish farmers join wave of protests
Farmers in Spain have joined their European counterparts in staging protests across the country. Like farmers elsewhere, they demand more flexibility from the European Union,...
Burera: Mayor says no farmer was jailed for sorghum farming.
Following the allegations that they were being fined and jailed for cultivating sorghum, the mayor of Burera says no farmer was jailed. The farmers from...
NST1: Rwanda’s fertiliser use doubles, irrigation scaled up
Fertilsier use per hectare in Rwanda more than doubled, while irrigated land significantly increased for higher farm output in the government’s seven-year programme of the National Strategy...