Senegal: ANIDA farms changing people's lives (Feature) by NDAO Khadijanda

19 september 2019 - 22:39:52 KND

Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA)   -   Farms of the National Agency for Integration and Agricultural Development of Senegal (ANIDA) are changing the lives of many people in [...] Full text...

Congo creates separate development agencies for agriculture and fisheries

19 september 2019 - 12:42:26 BBA

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The Congolese government announced on Wednesday the creation of the National Agency for Agriculture  and Livestock Development and the Agency for [...] Full text...

Mauritius launches three new varieties of tomato

16 september 2019 - 14:06:51 NA

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Food and Agricultural Research Extension Institute (FAREI) of Mauritius on Monday launched three new varieties of tomato developed locally, [...] Full text...

Army worms risk undermining agricultural policies, says Nigerien President

13 september 2019 - 11:47:47 BBA

Niamey, Niger (PANA) – Niger's president Issoufou Mahamadou warned on Thursday that the fall army worms risk undermining all agricultural policies in Africa. He said if [...] Full text...

Congo: Eco-Oil energy, Chinese Camaco sign agric partnership agreement

12 september 2019 - 17:36:10 KND

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese company, Eco-Oil Energy, and the Chinese Camaco on Wednesday signed a partnership agreement to promote the mechanization of agriculture [...] Full text...

First Agricultural Science Exchange Forum opens in Mauritius

12 september 2019 - 13:50:41 NA

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Agro-industry and Food Security minister Mahen Seeruttun on Thursday said that “Mauritius is among the most exposed countries to [...] Full text...

FAO commits to support Congo to reach the 'Zero hunger' goal

12 september 2019 - 12:34:31 BBA

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) will support Congo to develop its agriculture and fight against hunger, FAO regional director [...] Full text...

Niger: the overall situation of the 2019 agropastoral campaign is generally satisfactory

12 september 2019 - 00:06:37 KND

Niamey, Niger (PANA)   -   The last ten days of August 2019 was characterized by moderate to heavy rains over most of Niger, with cumulative rainfall [...] Full text...

WAEMU hands over silos for San in central Mali to Malian government

03 september 2019 - 22:05:34 MSA

Bamako, Mali (PANA)   -   The Malian minister of agriculture, Moulaye Ahamed Aboubacar, Tuesday presided over the handing over ceremony of storage stores for crops built [...] Full text...

Somalia to see worst harvest since 2011, with more than 2 million expected to go hungry

03 september 2019 - 20:22:38 MA

Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - Somalia’s 2019 cereal harvest is the poorest the country has seen since 2011, when famine strained already scarce resources, the UN Food [...] Full text...

24% of the total food insecure people in the world live in IGAD region - Report

02 september 2019 - 18:18:17 MO

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A report by the East and Central African authority on development on Sunday said climatic shocks, conflict and economic instability have [...] Full text...

Senegal: Two billion CFA francs for rice producers in the south of the country

02 september 2019 - 17:17:22 KND

Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - The Rapid Entrepreneurship Delegation (DER), initiated by President Macky Sall, on Saturday launched a program to structure the rice value chain [...] Full text...

Afrobeat stars to support IFAD’s call for more investment in youth, rural development

30 august 2019 - 14:22:42 AR

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Urgent investments in agriculture and rural development from Africa's leaders are needed to create opportunities in support of the millions of [...] Full text...

Uganda’s Museveni woos Japanese to process agricultural produce

29 august 2019 - 22:34:02 E M

YOKOHAMA, JAPAN (PANA) – Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, on Thursday appealed to Japanese investors to transfer their technology to Uganda and help add value to [...] Full text...

Rwanda aims to help smallholder growers improve sweet potato output

29 august 2019 - 15:36:48 TWA

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) -  In its struggle to produce enough food for its population, Rwanda emphasises the application of genetic engineering, a government official said [...] Full text...

Japanese agro-entrepreneurs commit to doubling Africa rice production

28 august 2019 - 21:14:50 AO

Yokohama, Japan (PANA) – The Sasakawa Association will work with the Japan International Corporation Agency (JICA) to help double rice production to 50 million tonnes [...] Full text...

Refugees, low rains threaten food security situation in Uganda

26 august 2019 - 13:06:33 E M

Kampala, Uganda (PANA) – Influx of refugees and drought are key risk factors that are likely to spark off a spate of food shortages in [...] Full text...

Mauritius takes action to control fruit flies

22 august 2019 - 18:17:04 NA

Reduit, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius on Thursday opened a Fruit Fly Rearing Facility in Reduit, a mass rearing system producing high quality insects at a cost [...] Full text...

IFAD seeks recipients for grant to improve cassava, maize seed in central Africa region

22 august 2019 - 13:14:49 AR

Rome, Italy (PANA) - One of key challenges facing agricultural development efforts in the central Africa region is access to quality seed, which is the [...] Full text...

SADC Summit addresses recurrent drought, food insecurity

18 august 2019 - 17:04:04 EBM

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The 39th ordinary Summit of heads of state and government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has urged [...] Full text...

Malian women, small farmers see rice yields soar with help from AfDB (An AfDB Feature)

14 august 2019 - 16:30:37 VAO

Bamako, Mali ((PANA) -- In Baguinéda, eastern Mali's Koulikoro region, the lowlands on the banks of the River Niger stretch (as far as the eye can see), [...] Full text...

Burundi ends importation of fertilizers

13 august 2019 - 15:36:44 KND

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi has announced a halt to the importation of agricultural fertilizers this year, saying the ban followed the the beginning of [...] Full text...

Congo: WFP launches new fundraising app for school canteens

09 august 2019 - 15:28:11 KND

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The World Food Program (WFP) on Friday in Brazzaville launched a new funding transfer application to support canteens in schools in [...] Full text...

Niger plans to reform the fertilizer sector

09 august 2019 - 14:01:21 KND

Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Niger's Minister of Agriculture, Albadé Abouba, on Friday urged the Nigerien Association of Fertilizer Importers and Distributors (ANIDE) to ensure prompt [...] Full text...

Experts call for more efforts to address food security in Africa

06 august 2019 - 19:27:53 TWA

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Experts gathered in Kigali for a two-day Africa Food Security Leadership Dialogue, on Tuesday called for an urgent action for the [...] Full text...

US launches 5-year, US$15.7 million Agribusiness Investment programme for Nigeria

06 august 2019 - 18:04:22 MON

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on Tuesday launched a new Feed the Future Nigeria activity to nurture a business-enabling [...] Full text...

Second Sahelian Cashew Forum opens in Bamako

06 august 2019 - 11:43:41 BBA

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The second Sahelian Cashew Forum opened in the Malian capital, Bamako, on Monday on the theme: "Improving the competitiveness of the [...] Full text...

Tunisia participates in conference for leadership dialogue on food security in Africa

05 august 2019 - 20:51:45 MSA

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)   -   Tunisian Minister of Agriculture Samir Taeib will participates in the conference for Leadership Dialogue on Food Security in Africa on 5-6 [...] Full text...

Mali to hold 4th pastorallists fair from 6 to 9 August

05 august 2019 - 11:30:55 BBA

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The 4th edition of Regional Project to Support Pastorallism in the Sahel (PRAPS-Mali) will take place from 6 to 9 August, [...] Full text...

Botswana Agriculture minister to attend food security talks in Rwanda

02 august 2019 - 12:53:24 M S

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - The Botswana Minister of Agricultural Development and Food Security will travel to Kigali in Rwanda for an Africa Food Security Leadership [...] Full text...

Burundi deploys "PICS bags" for sustainable conservation of crops

01 august 2019 - 18:34:41 KND

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Triple-bottom Purdue improved crop storage (PICS) bags are being rolled out in Burundi to better conserve cereals and legumes and limit [...] Full text...

Potato production in Mauritius inches up

01 august 2019 - 08:07:32 NA

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Agro-industry and Food Security Minister Mahen Seeruttun on Wednesday told Parliament that the production of potato from 2015 to 2018 [...] Full text...

Crop season characterized by aborted start to late rains in the Great Horn of Agrica: Report

31 july 2019 - 17:15:36 TWA

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) -  Crop season in July 2019 was characterized by an aborted start due to late rains in parts of the region which [...] Full text...

FAO warns of Desert Locust outbreaks in Yemen, Horn of Africa

25 july 2019 - 19:49:45 MA

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Desert Locust summer breeding, amplified by heavy rains, can pose a serious threat to agricultural production areas of Yemen, Sudan, Eritrea and [...] Full text...

FAO assists Togolese NGOs in development of agriculture

25 july 2019 - 05:36:56 MSA

Lomé, Togo (PANA) – The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has released more than 73 million CFAF to three Togolese NGOs working in [...] Full text...

Zimbabwe gov't taken to court over ban on selling maize and making GMB sole buyer

23 july 2019 - 17:04:17 T Z

Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement minister, Perrance Shiri, and the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) have been dragged to court for [...] Full text...

Brazil grants Mali 1.3 billion CFAF for soil maintenance in the main cotton zones of the country

22 july 2019 - 14:11:53 KND

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Brazilian Cooperation Agency will make available more than CFAF 1.3 billion to the Malian Company for Textile Development (CMDT), which [...] Full text...

Niger wants to stop importing rice by 2023

20 july 2019 - 15:04:32 KND

Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Nigerien nutrition coordinator for the 3N Initiative, Ali Bety said on Friday that the president has instructed the government to develop [...] Full text...

AfDB Board approves recommendations of the first monitoring report on Modern Mills of Mali

13 july 2019 - 07:53:25 VAO

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved recommendations of the first monitoring report of the [...] Full text...

GCF announces $20m for AfDB's Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa’s climate-resilience project in Ghana

13 july 2019 - 07:24:05 VAO

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) - The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has announced a US$20 million grant to the African Development Bank’s Affirmative Finance Action for [...] Full text...

Digital solutions could be key to end hunger in Africa - Report

12 july 2019 - 19:27:22 TWA

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) -  Strategic use of digital technologies can be a game changer in accelerating sustainable agricultural transformation in Africa as well as ending [...] Full text...

Cameroon joins International Cashew Advisory Council

11 july 2019 - 14:47:15 KND

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - Cameroon has joined the International Cashew Advisory Council (Cicc), an organization created in November 2016, whose mission is to promote [...] Full text...

Togolese gov't warns against illegal importation of tilapias

11 july 2019 - 14:20:58 KND

Lome, Togo (PANA) - The Togolese government has warned against the illegal importation of tilapias into Togolese markets, the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal and [...] Full text...

Mauritius launches Model Organic Farm to promote safer, sustainable food production

11 july 2019 - 14:00:00 NA

Riviere des Anguilles, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Agro-Industry and Food Security Minister, Mr Mahen Seeruttun, on Thursday launched a Model Organic Farm, to provide farmers [...] Full text...

Food safety at the centre of Abidjan Academy of African Sciences, Arts meeting

10 july 2019 - 11:17:34 BBA

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) - The biennial meeting of the Academy of African Sciences, Arts, Cultures and Diasporas (ASCAD) opened on Tuesday in Abidjan, the Ivorian [...] Full text...

Niger officially launches laboratories to accelerate objectives of sustainable development

09 july 2019 - 23:17:32 KND

Niamey, Niger (PANA)    -   The authorities in Niger this week launched activities of laboratories to accelerate the objectives of sustainable development, reports the Nigerien Press [...] Full text...

AGF, MIFA sign partnership agreement to guarantee financing to Togolese farmers

05 july 2019 - 10:07:34 BBA

Lomé, Togo (PANA)   -   The African Guarantee Fund (AGF) Thursday signed a partnership agreement with the Agricultural Financing Incentive Mechanism (MIFA) to secure financing for [...] Full text...

Economic transformation, job creation in rural Sahel key to stability in region - IFAD

03 july 2019 - 12:48:56 DJ

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The economic transformation of rural areas and the creation of jobs for millions of young rural people are pre-conditions to stability [...] Full text...

IFAD to increase financial allocation to Mali

02 july 2019 - 11:51:11 BBA

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Gilbert F. Houngbo, on Monday announced an increase in the financial [...] Full text...

Drought, Cyclone Idai affect Zimbabwe's 2018/19 tobacco production

29 june 2019 - 17:59:13 T Z

Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Drought and damage caused by the March Category three storm, Cyclone Idai, have impacted the current 2018/19 tobacco harvesting season, local [...] Full text...