Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Tanzania and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has signed an agreement to undertake an early warning system project for livestock. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan authorities are contemplating a policy paper that would eliminate middlemen from the cultivation and export of horticultural produce. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambican Agriculture Minister Helder Muteia has suggested that the time has come to discuss the previously taboo issue of private land ownership in the country. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Visiting FAO director-general Jacques Diouf Friday expressed the importance which FAO attaches to Tunisia's high-level participation at the upcoming World Food Summit. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's agricultural sector recorded an overall decline in growth of 2. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Sixty-nine year-old Thiong'o wa Kamami tearfully gazes at his small coffee holding, and gestures in desperation. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- The Moroccan government has mobilised about 134 million US dollars to fight the effects of drought in the country, State television has announced. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- Niger's water resources minister Akoli Daouel on Sunday officially launched the drilling of 13 irrigation bore-holes the Irhazer valley 900 km north of Niamey. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Agricultural experts from 19 West and Central African countries have ended a three-day meeting in Ouagadougou, adopting an action plan for the implementation of the "Pan-African Animal Disease Control Programme" (PACE) in the two geographical zones. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Caterpillars, agricultural authorities in Burkina Faso say, have swarmed fields around Tenkodogo (about 200 km east of Ouagadougou). Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Eighty animal health specialists from 19 West and Central African countries started a three-day meeting Tuesday in Ouagadougou to discuss the promotion of programmes for the surveillance and control of animal diseases in the region. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Namibian Agriculture Minister Helmut Angula Tuesday expressed concern at the way economically powerful Western nations imposed their will on Third World countries when it came to implementing some UN conventions. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Heavy rains have been reported in parts of Senegal, notably in the southern town of Kedougou where an aggregate 86. Full text...

Mwenezi- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Violence erupted Saturday at a commercial farm in southern Zimbabwe after the white farm owner savagely castrated bulls belonging to landless villagers occupying his property. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea Bissau (PANA) -- Guinea-Bissau has decided to boost its honey production in order to take advantage of the product's lucrative international market. Full text...

Katima Mulilo- Namibia (PANA) -- Namibia's minister of Agriculture, Water and Rural Development, Helmut Angula, says this year's floods in the eastern parts of Caprivi would not affect crop yields. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambique's National Cashew Institute is to invest about four billion meticais (slightly less than 185,000 US dollars) on a programme to revive cashew nut production in the southern province of Inhambane. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Congolese Agriculture minister Celestin Gongarad Nkoua has launched a 2. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is rehabilitating Sudan's agriculture, the Resident Representative Abullah el Tahir Bin Yahya has said. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Benin's minister of agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Theophile Nata on Monday officially launched construction works for 1,150 km of rural feeder roads in Soclogbo. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- The American Ambassador to Congo has hinted that the US was contemplating support for the fight against cassava diseases in the Central African sub region. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Tanzania is in the next few months expected to pull the wraps off an agricultural development strategy, to unveil a new impetus towards a sector that has largely failed to fulfil its role as an engine of economic growth for poverty reduction and food security. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The Ivorian government has reported identifying "slave-owning farmers" in the country, after British television broadcasts raised the issue of child slaves in Ivorian plantations. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation said Friday that more that more than 100 countries covering some 3,600 million hectares were seriously affected by desertification. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Burkina Faso's rural dwellers are to enjoy a new lease of life with the launch last weekend in Bobo-Dioulasso, of a Support Project for Rural Micro-Enterprises (PAMER). Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- More than 5,000 of the estimated 6,000 commercial farms in Namibia are still owned by Whites, leaving Blacks with about 560 farms after independence, Lands, Resettlement and Rehabilitation Minister Hifikepunye Pohamba, told the National Assembly Thursday. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- A body monitoring food security in west and central Africa (SADAOC) has observed that Cote d'Ivoire had the potential of going self-sufficient for up to 18 months if the authorities there researched into increased yields as well as food conservation. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambican peasant cotton producers have rejected the proposed liberalisation of prices of cotton, which was due to come into effect this year, the daily paper "Noticias" reported Wednesday. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- The authorities in Mali are rubbing their hands in glee following the decision by the European Union to integrate shea butter (up to 5 per cent) in the manufacture of chocolate. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Palm oil producers in Ehania, near Aboisso (190 km east of Abidjan), have ended a strike embarked upon since 20 May to press for better prices for palm nuts, union sources affirmed Monday. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Benin's cereal production has fallen by 2. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambique expects to harvest about 1. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Though Benin suffered a decline of 7. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Six years into the venture, officials at a 10-billion CFA franc hydro-agricultural project to develop rice cultivation in Cote d'Ivoire's central region of Divo region have reported significant yields. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambian farmers are soon to significantly increase their crop yields by as much as three fold, when they start using seeds from the country's research stations now under a programme known as "radiation mutation breeding. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- The Moroccan government has subsidised farmers in the country with 4. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The Capespan group has entered into an exclusive agreement with the ARC Infruitec- Nietvoorbij Institute in Stellenbosch outside Cape Town for the commercialisation of its new table grape cultivars in all South Hemisphere countries, as well as in Egypt, Israel and Turkey. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The Capespan group has entered into an exclusive agreement with the ARC Infruitec- Nietvoorbij Institute in Stellenbosch outside Cape Town for the commercialisation of its new table grape cultivars in all South Hemisphere countries, as well as in Egypt, Israel and Turkey. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe's Agriculture Minister Joseph Made said Sunday the government had raised 6. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe's Agriculture Minister Joseph Made said Sunday the government had raised 6. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea-Bissau (PANA) -- China is giving Guinea Bissau financial and technical assistance to improve farming projects in the west African country. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- For the Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania, owning a heard of cattle is not only a sign of wealth, but a sign of prestige to this ethnic group striding the borders of the two Eastern Africa nations. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- The European Union (EU) and the Malian Government have signed two agreements worth 20 billion F CFA to be spent on combating desertification in the northern regions and increase rice production. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- An international symposium on integrated crop protection in the Mediterranean region, opened in Rabat Tuesday with the participation of Moroccan and foreign experts. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- An Ivorian farmers NGO has slammed against international media organisations for alleging that child-slaves from Burkina Faso and Mali produced 90 percent of agricultural products in two agricultural firms in the country. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The collapse of international cocoa prices is taking place as the quality of Cote d'Ivoire's main foreign exchange earner has deteriorated considerably. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- A South African delegation led by the Public Works Minister, Stella Sigcau is back home after a week-long visit to observe India's irrigation systems as well as agro-manufacturing and processing. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- A plan is under way by the Mauritian Chamber of Agriculture to encourage Mauritians to grow fruits and vegetables outside the country. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- If approved, experts fear that Malawi's proposed new land policy could trigger an economic crisis. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambique's grain production rose from 400,000 tonnes in 1990 to one million in 1997, the country's agriculture minister Helder Muteia has said. Full text...