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  • 'We don't know what they do behind the wall': Zambian women miss out on help

    ZAMBIA, 2017/07/02 China is setting up agricultural centres across Africa, but in Zambia – where the majority of farmers are female smallholders – few women get the luck to learn On the highway heading towards Chongwe, 15km south-east of Lusaka, the red Chinese lettering, high flagpoles and gleaming modern architecture of the Zambia Chinese Agricultural Technology Demonstration Centre (ZATDC) stand out amid the vast fields of maize. It is one of 25 such centres built across the continent as part of a grand plan to bring agricultural training to local people, helping them produce better crops with higher yields, so that food security is improved for everyone.
  • 4月,匈牙利农场价格上涨4.1%

    匈牙利, 2017/06/15 匈牙利国家统计局今天上午发布首次数据,匈牙利4月农产品农场价格同比上涨4.1%。4月价格增长包含农作物产品价格降低1.2%,活动物和动物产品价格上涨14.5%。与去年同期相较,4月份谷物价格上涨2.2%,水果价格上涨8.4%,蔬菜价格上涨1.8%。 根据统计局数据,活动物的生产者价格水准上涨了12%,动物产品价格水准上涨了20%。 牛奶价格上涨了26%,恢复到了2014年底的价格水准。 1 - 4月份,生产者价格与2016年前4个月相较上涨0.7%,作物产品价格降低4.3%,活动物和动物产品价格上涨10%。 蔬菜价格下跌4.5%,水果价格下跌2.3%。 牛奶价格上涨了20%。
  • Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Fresh Land Grab Threats 'Are Racist, Nonsensical'

    ZIMBABWE, 2017/06/07 Zimbabwe's major opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party led by Morgan Tsvangirai has castigated President Robert Mugabe over his recent threats to embark on fresh land grabs targeting the few remaining white commercial farmers in the southern African country. Mugabe, 93, on Friday said that white commercial farmers who still remained on the farms should be removed from their properties because most Zimbabweans were in need of land. The nonagenarian said this while addressing thousands of his ruling Zanu-PF party supporters in the farming town of Marondera, about 80km east of the capital Harare.
  • Cocoa Cote D’Ivoire Cocoa production to lead agricultural sector

    ABIDJAN, 2017/04/19 Côte d’Ivoire‘s agricultural sector is key to its economy and following recent increase, international investment is presently being sought to power further development Agriculture has become a mainstay of Côte d’Ivoire’s economy contributing nearly a quarter to its GDP, but a revamped strategy looks set to ramp that up further over the coming years. The agricultural sector, which is dominated by products such as cocoa, coffee, cashew nuts and cotton, accounts for at least 50% of the West African country’s exports and is estimated to support between 60-70% of jobs in the country.
  • Vietnam's imports of pesticide rise 7.5 pct in Q1, mostly from China

    CHINA, 2017/04/07 Vietnam's imports of pesticide reached some 180 million U.S. dollars in the initial quarter of 2017, up 7.5 % year-on-year, the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said on Monday. During the period, China came top as the major supplier of Vietnam, accounting for over 50 % of the spending.
  • Gabon’s agricultural plans advance

    GABON, 2017/04/06 A drive to increase agricultural output and make Gabon a leader in African palm oil production took a key step forward this month with the completion of the country’s major palm oil plant. Palm oil’s potential Located in Mouila, in the south-eastern province of Ngounié, the new palm oil factory is being operated by the Singapore-based Olam Group. Its position among a 38,300-ha oil palm grove provides the facility with direct access to an abundance of raw materials. Olam plans to increase production over time by cultivating the 100,000-ha granted to it under the terms of the concession.
  • South Africa’s agriculture industry rallies after drought

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2017/04/06 Signs of a brighter outlook come next a lengthy drought, which has significantly pushed down production in the completed three years and continues to impact much of the eastern part of the continent and the Horn of Africa. Welcome rains in late summer and autumn brought some respite for South Africa’s agricultural producers towards the end of 2016, helping to boost yields and improving the chances of recovery next a two-year contraction. While still in marginally negative territory, the sector registered its smallest quarterly contraction in two years in the fourth quarter of 2016, paving the way for bigger harvests and a stronger performance this year.
  • Nigeria Pulling Out of Recession Through Agricultural Activities

    NIGERIA, 2017/03/22 Presidential spokesman Garba Shehu says efforts to get the country out of its present economic challenges is beginning to yield positive results, particularly in the area of agriculture. The presidential aide said this in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday. According to him, an increase in the volume of rice production and processing across the country is by presently saving the country a lot of foreign exchange.
  • Agricultural development Argentina AGD to lead Argentina’s agricultural drive

    ARGENTINA, 2017/03/04 As Argentina opens its economy to the world, its key agribusiness sector – long the mainstay of its economic increase – seeks a reinvention through technology and better trade and commerce agreements worldwide. The Worldfolio sits down with Roberto Urquía of AGD, which is part Argentina’s most prominent agribusiness companies, to discuss these changes. AGD is a purely Argentine company which has made the change from simply exporting raw materials to a diversified portfolio inclunding price-added, branded products.
  • Malawi: Chaponda to Be Backbencher in Malawi Parliament

    MALAWI, 2017/02/26 Fired Agriculture minister George Chaponda is not reporting for duties at parliament since he lost his job on Wednesday. Chaponda has not been allocated any seat as a back bencher.as has not been going to parliament since President Peter Mutharika fired him following a series of allegations of corrupt practices in te procurement of maize from Zambia.