Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Namibia is planning to conduct a survey to determine how many donkeys it has in the country before starting a full-fledged export venture of the hardworking animals. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya has issued an alert following a break out of African swine fever, a highly contagious disease which has killed over 200 pigs in the past two weeks. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe doubled tea exports in the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2000, raking in nearly 36 million US dollars, agriculture officials said Friday. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe's white farmers, besieged by the government's controversial land reforms, Friday voluntarily gave up nearly 30 more farms to the authorities for resettlement of landless peasants. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Bowing to mounting criticisms for ignoring locally-available foodstuffs, Tanzanian hoteliers have expressed their willingness to reduce their preference for imported items. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Rice imports across the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are as high a billion dollars a year, according to West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA) managing director Kanayo Nwanze. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- The first shipment of 180,000 tonnes of maize imported from South Africa to stave off famine in Malawi would be delivered by next Tuesday, it was officially announced Wednesday in Blantyre. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's National agriculture body, AgriSA said Tuesday that attacks on farmers in the country had doubled compared to the same period last year. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Farmers within the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) are calling for a common agricultural action plan including a harmonised policy and legal framework. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Monday spoke out against increasing hunger, insisting that the phenomenon was tantamount to a violation of human rights on a massive scale. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe agriculture officials said Monday they had identified the source of the foot and mouth disease which broke in August and were close to bringing it under control. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Ministers of agriculture from six eastern Africa countries Monday began a two-day meeting in Arusha, northern Tanzania, to discuss strategies of pest and vector control in the region. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Coffee sector experts have cited wrangling as the main reason why the Kenyan coffee industry is slowly losing its world market premium. Full text...

Ndola- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia's Copperbelt Permanent Secretary Geoffrey Mukala has directed the ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries (MAFF) to terminate the contract of Masaiti Farm Institute, which had been leased to a South African Investor. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The Tanzanian government has announced new measures to deal with the spread of the highly contagious African Swine Fever, which was first reported in the country last May. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan health and agricultural authorities have released new guidelines on the marketing of milk and milk products in the country. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Southern African Development Community (SADC) ministers of lands are converging in Windhoek for a consultative meeting devoted to the land question in the region. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Malawi's state-owned food dealers, the Agricultural Development and Marketing Board (ADMARC), and the National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) are trading blame for an acute food shortage in the country. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan researchers say the have made a major breakthrough in the war against the "Cassava Mosaic Disease," a virulent virus that has greatly affected the production of the crop in the country. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Namibia is to import 70 000 tonnes of white maize from South Africa this year, Agronomic Board chief executive Chistof Brock hinted Friday. Full text...

Tambacounda- Senegal (PANA) -- There has been a good crop in the south-eastern Senegal region of Tambacounda despite poor rains received during August which is normally a rainy period, the regional director of rural development has said. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Sources in Botswana have expressed fears that illegal immigrants entering the country through unofficial points could compromise efforts at preventing the spread of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) from Zimbabwe. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudan and Morocco have signed a co-operation agreement on agriculture, the press reported in Khartoum Thursday. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe government agriculture officials said Tuesday they had intensified efforts to control a raging foot and mouth disease that has cost the economy hundreds of millions of dollars in lost export revenue. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Dutch government is to spend over Ksh 13 million (about 166,000 US dollars) on a horticultural and dairy farming project in Kenya's marginal areas of Keiyo and Marakwet districts. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) has granted more than 641 million birr (about 76. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudan earns an average of 150 million US dollars from the animal resources sector each year, according to Mustafa Ismail Al-Hajj, the Deputy Manager of the country's Animal Resources Services Company. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe authorities Friday dispatched hundreds of army and government trucks countrywide to ferry landless peasants to plots allotted them on farms seized from white-owned farmers. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- Caterpillars have invaded over 600 hectares of rice fields in the Guinean localities of Doupourou, Tounkhifili and Mankountan in Boffa Division, 146 km north of Conakry. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- The Zimbabwe government Wednesday approved the disbursement of a 15-billion-Zimdollar (273 million US dollars) loan scheme to peasant farmers it is resettling under its controversial land reform programme to finance agricultural production in the farming season starting in October. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- One of the largest aqua food projects in Africa was launched this week at Makokskraal in the Northwest Province of South Africa. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- Niger's President Mamadou Tandja has commended the agricultural cooperation between his country and Egypt saying it is an outstanding example of technology transfer among developing countries. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe Monday revised down its import requirement of the staple maize food to 100,000 tonnes from an earlier estimate of 700,000 tonnes this year. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Namibia President Sam Nujoma reiterated Sunday that land redistribution is central to his government's policy because agriculture was the mainstay of the country's economy. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- FAO's regional information officer for Africa Paul Fouda Onambele on Sunday said that fighting hunger must be the first step to reducing poverty. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Mauritius Chamber of Agriculture has said it intends to work with neighbouring Mozambique and Madagascar to produce food for the country. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- An outbreak of African swine fever has killed at least 70 pigs in Malawi's southern district of Balaka. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- The National Department of Agriculture in Niger has reported better rainfall this year, occasioning extensive cultivation and planting of farmland. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Swine fever has killed a total of 853 pigs in Parakou, 400 km north of Cotonou, according to the director of Benin's veterinary and phyto-sanitary control, Dr. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambican Agriculture Minister Helder Muteia has admitted that there are "pockets of hunger" in the country due to poor harvest but denied that anyone has starved to death from famine. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Botswana has banned the importation of a range of animal products from neighbouring Zimbabwe, citing an outbreak of foot and mouth disease. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned Wednesday that more than 500,000 Somalis face a serious food crisis, following the almost total failure of rains in southern Somalia. Full text...

Keetmanshoop- Namibia (PANA) -- Delegates to a regional meeting Wednesday told Namibian Lands, Resettlement and Rehabilitation Minister Hifikepunye Pohamba, that a second national conference was necessary to address the land issue in the country more adequately. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) warned Wednesday that the Blue Nile floods had aggravated the already precarious food supply situation in northern Sudan, after displacing thousands of people and destroying crops in the region. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Participants at the third International Soyfood Conference in Johannesburg have promised to give the soyfood industry a further boost as it continues to gain grounds. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The Food and Agriculture Organisation has supplied improved seeds worth 400,000 US dollars to farmers of Sudan's Eastern regions devastated by drought in 2000. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe's state-owned Herald newspaper has claimed that this week's looting on white-owned farms in the north of the country was instigated by the British High Commission and other groups to attract world attention ahead of a series of international summits. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ethiopia's Agriculture Ministry would require more than 308 million birr (about 36. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- John Mwenda, 42, is a simple man, but his diminutive frame belies his success as a goat farmer, much like his counterpart Andrew Nkunjiri, 48, who would hardly strike anyone as a modern farmer. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe Wednesday enlisted the services of the Army to demarcate land for resettlement under its controversial land reforms, and provide other logistical support for the programme. Full text...