Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Tanzania has hatched an ambitious plan to triple its cotton output in the next six years from the current average of 250,000 bales to 750,000 bales annually. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has expressed Dakar's interest to replace Rome as host the forthcoming conference of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Hundreds of landless black peasants at the weekend looted farms whose white owners fled recent unrest in northern Zimbabwe, police said Monday. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudanese Agriculture minister Majzoub el Khalifa has said this season's sorghum, groundnuts and cotton harvests were satisfactory thanks to adequate rainfall. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya Planters Co-operative Union announced Sunday that it would set up a modern coffee curing plant in a bid to enhance efficiency in processing the export crop. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudanese authorities have reported that the country's livestock population doubled in the last 14 years. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- At least 40 white farmers fled northern Zimbabwe Friday following clashes between them and landless peasants in the area in recent days, farming industry officials confirmed. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The Bank of Tanzania has predicted that the nation's food supply downturn of recent months may improve during the coming year. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A modern banana ripening method that will enable farmers meet scheduled market appointments is soon to be introduced in Kenya. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Tanzanian farmers and co-operative union officials Wednesday called for an overhaul of the country's institutional framework for agricultural marketing. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The Tanzanian government Tuesday announced a six-month programme to contain a recent outbreak of African swine fever in the nation's capital Dar es Salaam. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Tanzania's annual Peasant's Day, popularly known as Nane Nane, is to be observed throughout the country on Wednesday, climaxing a weeklong agricultural show in the eastern region of Morogoro. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- Some 10,530 peasant families in Sierra Leone have obtained farm implements and inputs, the Chief Agricultural officer, Dennis Kamara, said in Freetown Tuesday. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Ivorian growers' co-operatives and the International Cocoa Organisation last Friday established a Professional Agricultural Bank (BPA), official sources in Abidjan said Monday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Western Cape's Elsenburg College of Agriculture has become the first college of its kind to include agritourism in its curriculum in South Africa. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Dairy farmers in Kenya's Rift Valley province earned 2. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Democratic Republic of Congo's President Joseph Kabila on Saturday called for increased trade between his country and Zambia as a way of strengthening economic and political ties of Africa. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Millions of Kenyans are in need of food aid as drought continues to grip large portions of the country, the World Food Programme has warned. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Adverse weather conditions, persistent civil strife and general insecurity were main reasons for current food shortages in 17 sub-Saharan countries, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation reported Friday. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- African Plantations Corporation Ltd has just finished investing 15 million US dollars in the production of coffee beans in Zambia, through its local subsidiary. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe's largely white commercial farmers union said Thursday they had lost 250 000 cattle worth 5. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwean white farmers battling to save their farms from seizure under government's controversial land reforms, Thursday warned of critical food shortages in the future if the authorities pressed ahead with the programme without adjustments. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has granted Congo 300,000 dollars for improvement of cassava production in the central Plateaux region, the Congolese Information Agency (ACI) reported on Wednesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Veterinary officials in Kenya have reported an outbreak of anthrax in parts of the country but they say the situation is not alarming. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The World Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has warned of acute food emergencies caused by difficult weather conditions, persistent civil strife and insecurity facing 17 sub-Saharan African countries. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- DR Congo President Joseph Kabila will officially open Zambia's 75th Agricultural and Commercial Show in Lusaka Saturday, an official said Wednesday. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- Niger government plans to privatise and turn into a sub-regional cultural event, the country's annual herders' gathering, known as "Cure Salee," the Animal Resources Minister Koroney Maoude, has disclosed. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- The UN Development Programme has provided Bas Congo province in western Democratic Republic of Congo with four million dollars for implementation of a food self-sufficiency project. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya earned 40 million shillings from pyrethrum during the last crop season, a considerable increase from 17 million shillings the previous season. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana and Morocco are to sign a Memorandum of Understanding under which the former would fish for sardines in Morocco's territorial waters while the latter in turn catches tuna in Ghanaian waters. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The Zambezi Ranching and Cropping Plc in Zambia, Tuesday announced an increase in its turnover to 35,006 million kwacha over the past six months of trading. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- DR Congo Agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock Minister, Andre Philippe Futa, has announced government's plan to privatise the country's agricultural sector. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Jacques Diouf, the Director- General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), was due in Algeria Monday on a two-day official visit, reliable sources said in Algiers. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- Switzerland Saturday granted Niger one billion francs CFA (about 1. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- At least 5,000 households in the DR Congo will soon benefit from 1,250,000 meters of cassava cuttings and 1,000,000 meters of sweet potato plants for use in their gardens. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Benin has announced prices for inputs used in cotton production in the upcoming season scheduled to start 15 October, an official source said Thursday in Cotonou. Full text...

Matutuine- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambican Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Helder Muteia has said that work to shore up protection dikes along the rich agricultural valleys of the Incomati and Maputo rivers, particularly in Manhica and Matutuine districts, will start in September. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- The DR Congo and two UN agencies Tuesday in Kinshasa held a tripartite meeting on the launching of a support project to farmers in the country's several regions. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- The government of Niger is poised to revamp the country's livestock sector through the development of range coupled with improved management of other pastoral resources. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Fisheries minister Sylvio Michel said Sunday Japan would finance the construction of a 200-million rupee (7. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- A massive grain deficit in Botswana this year would impact negatively on the food situation in the country, the Ministry of Agriculture has warned. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Concerned about increasing food insecurity in developing countries, the head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Thursday urged the industrialised G-8 nations to contribute to a trust fund for food security. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe, facing possible food shortages this year, has banned the private sale of wheat and maize to ensure food security, government officials said Thursday. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- Substantial rainfall in June has reduced the intensity of locust attacks on crops in parts of Niger, according to the Crop Protection Department. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Namibian Lands Minister Hifikepunye Pohamba has ordered the suspension of land allocations in the common grazing area of Mangetti in the Oshikoto region. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- The Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI) is hosting two workshops later this month on the potentials for marketing Namibian fish and fish products in the US. Full text...

Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- Stakeholders Friday ended a two-day workshop on Gambia's livestock sub-sector urging investors to reach out for its under-tapped. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- African scientists closed an international conference in Nairobi Friday with calls for more scrutiny on ethical, economic and environmental issues in the use of biotechnology as a means of fighting endemic food shortages on the continent. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- An estimated five million birds of the quelea quelea type have invaded Kenya's wheat growing areas in Southern Rift Valley destroying the crop which is at harvesting stage. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- KwaZulu-Natal's local minister of Agriculture and Environmental Affairs, Narend Singh, has announced investment proposals of more than 50 million US dollars for the Makhathini Flats, a region in the remote north-eastern part of the province. Full text...