Mauritius' sugar production to decrease by 6.2% in 2022
NA Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritius Chamber of Agriculture said on Saturday that the production of sugar for the crop year 2022 will drop by [...] Full text...
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Agriculture
Kenyan experts train Mauritian farmers in tea cultivation
NA Wooton, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian tea growers on Tuesday started a three-day training programme with experts from the Tea Research Institute of Kenya, sponsored by [...] Full text...
UN officials see progress as global food prices drop amid ongoing Black Sea grain deal shipments
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Two vital objectives of the Black Sea grain deal brokered by the United Nations and Turkey are already being achieved, a [...] Full text...
European Bank gives Tunisia Grains Board €150.5 million
BBA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has signed a sovereign guaranteed loan for €150.5 million to Office des Cereales (ODC), [...] Full text...
Externally sourced consumables dominate Ghana’s market
AR Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana’s agricultural and related imports were valued at US $3.3 billion in 2021, an increase of about 35 percent compared to [...] Full text...
Gambia, WFP join forces to enhance agriculture, food security of vulnerable communities
MA Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – The Government of The Gambia and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), have launched the Gambia Agriculture and Food Security [...] Full text...
Loan from UN fund allows FAO to scale up fertilizers for farmers in Ethiopia's Tigray region
MA Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - A $10 million loan from the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) will allow the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) [...] Full text...
World sees major fall in food prices for July, but future supply worries remain: FAO
MA Rome, Italy (PANA) - Food prices dropped significantly in July, marking the fifth consecutive monthly decline since hitting record highs earlier in the year in [...] Full text...
World Bank gives Chad, Ghana, Sierra Leone $315 million to prepare against food insecurity
MA Washington, US (PANA) - Some additional two million people will benefit from a second phase of the West Africa regional Food Systems Resilience Programme (FSRP-2) [...] Full text...
Ghana approves GE cowpea crop for environmental and market release
AR Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's National Biosafety Authority has approved the release of the GE crop BT Cowpea into the environment and market, marking the [...] Full text...
ADF approves $14.4 million loan to boost food security in Zambia
AR Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) - The African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional window of the African Development Bank Group, has approved a $14.4 million loan [...] Full text...
Load shedding impacts South Africa’s entire agricultural value chain
AR Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - Power outage as a result of enormous restraint on electricity generation, locally known as load shedding, is emerging as a [...] Full text...
AfDB approves $3.5 million for Gambia rice project
MA Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved a grant of $3.5 million from the [...] Full text...
Ghana's dairy industry set to grow despite threat from imported products
AR Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Estimated at a Retail Sale Price (RSP) value of about $350 million in 2021, Ghana’s dairy market presents bright prospects for [...] Full text...
AfDB Board Approves $134 million loan to boost food production in Nigeria
MA Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved a $134 million loan for the National [...] Full text...
South Africa maintains status as net maize exporter
AR Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) – Expecting to maintain its status as a net exporter of maize in marketing year 2022/23, South Africa is set to [...] Full text...
AfDB Board approves more than $1 billion for emergency food production plan
MA Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group’s Board of Directors has approved 24 fast-track programmes to help Africa mitigate rising food prices [...] Full text...
AfDB grants US$5 million to Burundi for food security
BBA Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The African Development Bank's (AfDB) recent US$5 million food security grant to Burundi comes at a time when inflation remains in [...] Full text...
AfDB grants $8.1 million to support food production in South Sudan
MA Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved a grant of $8.1 million to South Sudan [...] Full text...
Burundi to produce 18,000 tonnes of sugar this year
BBA Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Société sucrière du Moso (Moso sugar company) (SOSUMO), based in southern Burundi, announced on Thursday it would produce 18,000 tonnes [...] Full text...
Senegal passes biosafety law to allow approval of GE products
AR Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Senegalese legislators have passed a new biosafety law establishing a process to allow the entry, research, and commercialization of genetically engineered [...] Full text...
Algeria encourages less consumption of wheat to decrease demand
AR Algiers, Algeria (PANA) - The Algerian government is encouraging consumers in the country to decrease consumption of bread to avoid waste and decrease the demand [...] Full text...
Drought reduces Morocco’s grain, feed production by over 60 percent
AR Rabat, Morocco (PANA) – The government of Morocco is taking measures to develop a strategic wheat stock as the North African country faces low wheat [...] Full text...
Record fisheries, aquaculture production contributing to global food security - FAO
MA Lisbon, Portugal (PANA) - Record levels of fisheries and aquaculture production are making a critical contribution to global food security, the UN Ocean Conference under way [...] Full text...
Mali-Météo forecasts agricultural production of over 10.5 million tonnes of cereals this year
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The National Meteorological Agency (Mali-Météo) has predicted this year's agricultural production to be just over 10.5 million tonnes of cereals, reports [...] Full text...
Mali's Transitional President hands out tractors to Malian farmers
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The President of the Transition of Mali, Colonel Assimi Goita, Tuesday handed over 225 tractors to Malian farmers during a ceremony [...] Full text...
'IFAD’s projects in Gambia to help increase food production'
MSS Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Mr. Donald Brown, Associate Vice President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), has said that the Fund's projects in [...] Full text...
Benin to produce more than 22,000 tons of mango by 2026
BBA Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Beninese government plans to produce more than 22,000 tonnes of mango by 2026, uo from 16,610 tonnes, sources close to [...] Full text...
Coffee output drops in Tanzania due to low yields, high fertiliser cost, drought
AR Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Tanzania’s coffee production in marketing year 2022/23 is forecast to decrease 4% to 1.15 million bags due to lower [...] Full text...
World’s most vulnerable now paying even more, for less food: FAO
MA Rome, Italy (PANA) - Countries are expected to spend a staggering $1.8 trillion importing food they need this year.
This would be a new world record but worryingly, [...] Full text...
ECOWAS to launch mass vaccination campaign against ovine rinderpest
BBA Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission will on Friday launch the mass vaccination campaign against ovine rinderpest (PPR) [...] Full text...
Food exports must keep flowing worldwide, FAO chief urges
MA Rome, Italy (PANA) - As part of ongoing international efforts to address growing concerns over global food security linked to the war in Ukraine, a top [...] Full text...
UN food agencies warn of looming widespread food crisss as hunger threatens stability in dozens of countries
MA Rome, Italy (PANA) - UN food agencies -- the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) -- have issued [...] Full text...
Mauritius, FAO sign Country Programme Framework for food security
NA Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Wednesday signed the Country Programme Framework in Port-Louis which sets out [...] Full text...
US$ 678 million mobilized by IFAD in 42 years of presence in Burundi
BBA Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), which has been present in Burundi since 1980, has already mobilized 678 million US [...] Full text...
AfDB Board approves US$1.5 billion facility to avert food crisis in Africa
VAO Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The African Development Bank Group's Board of Directors on Friday approved a US$1.5 billion facility to help African countries avert [...] Full text...
Nations must ‘act together urgently' to end crisis of food insecurity: UN chief
MA New York, US (PANA) - Hunger levels around the world are at “a new high”, the UN chief warned on Wednesday, in a call to [...] Full text...
UN focus on plant health, crucial for boosting food security worldwide
MA Rome, Italy (PANA) - On the very first International Day of Plant Health, marked on Thursday, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has called [...] Full text...
Mali intends to inject 456 billion CFA francs into 2022-2023 agricultural season
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali will inject 456 billion CFA francs into the 2022-2023 agricultural season, the Malian Ministry of Rural Development declared at the [...] Full text...
Libyan minister calls for food security strategy
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Minister of Economy and Trade of the Government of National Unity (GNU), Mohamed al-Haweij, has called for a team [...] Full text...
Burkinabe gov't allocates more than 72 billion CFA francs to subsidise cotton growing
BBA Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Faced with soaring fertiliser prices due to the crisis between Russia and Ukraine, the Burkinabe government announced on Friday a [...] Full text...
Mauritius to develop sustainable system for plant propagation at Prison Service
NA Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian Ministry of Agro-Industry and Food Security and the Mauritius Prisons Service (MPS) have agreed to develop a framework of [...] Full text...
Mauritius launches first African accelerator focusing on Regenerative Food and Agri-Tech
NA Ferney, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth on Thursday launched the first-ever African accelerator focusing on Regenerative Food and Agri-Tech for regional and international [...] Full text...
Tripoli-based government holds meeting on plans to set up grains board
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Minister of Economy and Trade Mohamed al-Haweij of the Government of National Unity (GNU) has presented to Prime Minister Abdelhamid [...] Full text...
Benin produced over 190,000 tonnes of cashew nuts in 2021-2022 season -Ministry
BBA Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin produced more than 190,000 tonnes of cashew nuts during the 2021-2022 season, sources close to the ministry of Agriculture, Livestock [...] Full text...
IFAD supports Senegal's agriculture sector
BBA Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has granted Senegal funding for the productivity and market access of priority commodity and [...] Full text...
IFAD supports seven Sahelian countries with US$5.14 million
MTA Cotonou, Benin PANA) - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will allocate US$5.14 million to finance the Integrated Climate Risk Management Programme in seven [...] Full text...
Mali launches 12th edition of High Council for Agriculture
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The President of the Transition in Mali, Colonel Assimi Goita, Wednesday launched the 12th edition of the High Council of Agriculture, [...] Full text...
Mauritius addresses Food wastage programme
NA Flic-en-Flac, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Agro-Industry and Food Security Minister, Mr Maneesh Gobin, has highlighted the importance of addressing food wastage at all levels from [...] Full text...
Burundi to establish regulatory authority for veterinary products, pesticides and food
BBA Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Burundi government is to establish a regulatory authority for veterinary products, pesticides and food.
This is in response to the sanitary and [...] Full text...